{"id":42048,"date":"2021-07-29T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T13:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32514\/Call-For-Hungarian-Ministers-To-Resign-In-Wake-Of-Pegasus-Revelations.html"},"modified":"2021-07-29T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T13:30:09","slug":"call-for-hungarian-ministers-to-resign-in-wake-of-pegasus-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/call-for-hungarian-ministers-to-resign-in-wake-of-pegasus-revelations\/","title":{"rendered":"Call For Hungarian Ministers To Resign In Wake Of Pegasus Revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hungary\u2019s opposition has called for ministerial resignations from Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s far-right government over allegations<\/a> it selected journalists, media owners and opposition political figures as potential targets for invasive Pegasus spyware.<\/p>\n

The allegations, published last week by the Guardian and other members of the Pegasus project consortium<\/a>, were backed up in a number of cases with forensic analysis of mobile devices carried out by Amnesty International, which showed phones had been infected with Pegasus, sold by the Israeli company NSO Group.<\/p>\n

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The Pegasus project is a collaborative journalistic investigation into the NSO Group and its clients. The company sells surveillance technology to governments worldwide. Its flagship product is Pegasus, spying software \u2013 or spyware \u2013 that targets iPhones and Android devices. Once a phone is infected, a Pegasus operator can secretly extract chats, photos, emails and location data, or activate microphones and cameras without a user knowing.<\/p>\n

Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based nonprofit journalism organisation, and Amnesty International had access to a leak of more than 50,000 phone numbers selected as targets by clients of NSO since 2016. Access to the data was then shared with the Guardian and 16 other news organisations, including the Washington Post, Le Monde, Die Zeit and S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung. More than 80 journalists have worked collaboratively over several months on the investigation, which was coordinated by Forbidden Stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n