If you have an encrypted iPhone backup, you can also use MVT to decrypt your backup without having to make a whole new copy. MVT will let you take an entire iPhone backup (or a full system dump if you jailbreak your phone) and feed in for any indicators of compromise (IOCs) known to be used by NSO to deliver Pegasus, such as domain names used in NSO’s infrastructure that might be sent by text message or email. Amnesty said that more forensic traces were found on iPhones than Android devices, which makes it easier to detect on iPhones. The Mobile Verification Toolkit, or MVT, works on both iPhones and Android devices, but slightly differently. Citizen Lab researcher Bill Marczak said in a tweet that NSO’s zero-clicks worked on iOS 14.6, which until today was the most up-to-date version.Īmnesty’s researchers showed their work by publishing meticulously detailed technical notes and a toolkit that they said may help others identify if their phones have been targeted by Pegasus. Researchers at Amnesty, whose work was reviewed by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, found that NSO can deliver Pegasus by sending a victim a link which when opened infects the phone, or silently and without any interaction at all through a “zero-click” exploit, which takes advantage of vulnerabilities in the iPhone’s software.
NSO has long said that it doesn’t know who its customers target, which it reiterated in a statement to TechCrunch on Monday. Previous reporting had put the number of known victims in the hundreds or more than a thousand. The reporting shows for the first time how many individuals are likely targets of NSO’s intrusive device-level surveillance. Hungary, a member of the European Union where privacy from surveillance is supposed to be a fundamental right for its 500 million residents, is named as an NSO customer. The reports also confirm new details of the government customers themselves, which NSO Group closely guards. Researchers analyzed the phones of dozens of victims to confirm they were targeted by the NSO’s Pegasus spyware, which can access all of the data on a person’s phone. Over the weekend, an international consortium of news outlets reported that several authoritarian governments - including Mexico, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates - used spyware developed by NSO Group to hack into the phones of thousands of their most vocal critics, including journalists, activists, politicians and business executives.Ī leaked list of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets was obtained by Paris-based journalism nonprofit Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International and shared with the reporting consortium, including The Washington Post and The Guardian.
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