Comment on Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus

Raisin8659@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Voyager@psychedelia.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m using GrapheneOS for added security and sandboxing, but I feel that this is a bandaid solution.

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  • Raisin8659@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thx. You don’t seem to be the only one.

    In July 2022, Charlie Osborne of ZDNet suggested that individuals who suspect a Pegasus infection use a secondary device with GrapheneOS for secure communication.

    zdnet.com/…/how-to-find-and-remove-spyware-from-y…

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• chrisphero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, as far as I understand it, not really. NSO and for sure many other companies offering similar spy software use multiple 0-day exploits to get into your device.

  At least for the Pegasus one, a system restart seems to do the trick in removing it in most cases, although there are some reports on surviving even a factory reset on some phones…

  The other question is, if you are not a person of interest like a high-ranking politician or journalist, you are most likely not going to be a target of an attack. On the other hand, you never know… and that’s the really scary part.

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  • Raisin8659@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    a person of interest

    Thanks for the reminder.

    article:

    journalists, opposition politicians, and activists

    wikipedia: pretty much anybody of interests of the people with the ability to acquire the service

    journalists, lawyers, political dissidents, and human rights activists

    scholars, bureaucrats (India)

    politicians: head of stead (Iraq), mayors (Israel), associates (Israel), politicians (Israel), son of prime-minister (Israel), presidential candidate and associates (Mexico), prime minister (Morocco), King (Morocco)

    government employees (Israel), government officials (Israel), ex government officials (Israel), military officials (Morocco)

    employees of government-owned companies (Israel),

    suspects (Israel), drug cartels (Mexico), criminal (Netherlands)

    civil society members

    heads of corporations (Israel)

    Panama: foreign spying, including for spying on political opponents, magistrates, union leaders, and business competitors, with Martinelli allegedly going so far as to order the surveillance of his mistress using Pegasus.[5]

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    • chrisphero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yup, the rabbit hole is quite deep. That’s only the people we know to have been targeted by this version Pegasus, I’m sure the dark figure is much higher.

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• jimbolauski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The protocol for how to subvert this type of tracking is all ready known. You have to use burrner phones and swap out every couple of weeks. Don’t take any electronics to sensitive meetings.

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• Skimmer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would say to just keep your OS and software and such up to date, enable features like Lockdown Mode on iOS if available to you, and just generally have good security practices.

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