The Pegasus Project: an extensive investigation by an international media consortium into spyware sold by an Israeli surveillance company to authoritarian regimes

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This is the central hub at The Guardian for the Pegasus Project stories:

 

The Pegasus project | The Guardian

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Latest The Pegasus project news, comment and analysis from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

 

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Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers across the world have been targeted by authoritarian governments using hacking software sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, according to an investigation into a massive data leak.

 

The investigation by the Guardian and 16 other media organisations suggests widespread and continuing abuse of NSO’s hacking spyware, Pegasus, which the company insists is only intended for use against criminals and terrorists.

 

Pegasus is a malware that infects iPhones and Android devices to enable operators of the tool to extract messages, photos and emails, record calls and secretly activate microphones.

 

The leak contains a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers that, it is believed, have been identified as those of people of interest by clients of NSO since 2016.

 

 

 

These are the 17 media outlets that are part of the consortium that is breaking this story:

 

The Pegasus Project media index

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The collective journalism on the revelations about the Pegasus Project assembled in one place.

 

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Today, journalists in dozens of countries broke the story that military-grade surveillance technology, initially believed to be used for criminals and terrorists, was weaponized against journalists, political rivals, activists and lawyers from around the world. The revelation of this misuse of Pegasus, a surveillance software licensed and sold by the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, has stirred outrage and calls for the spyware to be better regulated by global governments.

 

Seventeen news outlets collaborated for months to publish a comprehensive and aggressive exposé of the scope of Pegasus’ jarring breach of privacy. Below is a full index of the coverage produced by those outlets, who have done the important work of following this story and unearthing the impact of the spyware’s abuse.