ESPIONAGE WITH PEGASUS: The Most Scandalous Cases Of Espionage With Pegasus
Pedro Sánchez is the first acting head of Spanish government to acknowledge having been spied on by the Israeli Pegasus software, with which Morocco also infiltrated one of the mobile phones of French President Emmanuel Macron. The Spanish Government has reported this Sunday that the mobile phones of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez and the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, were subjected to "illegal and external" wiretapping by the Pegasus program, according to two technical reports from the Cryptologic Center National. It is the first time that espionage with this software of an acting head of government has been confirmed. Already last summer, an investigation uncovered that Morocco had infected one of the mobile phones of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, with Pegasus, who however did not confirm the information. The Pegasus software from the Israeli manufacturer NSO is able to read all data from mobile phones attacked with it. In addition, Pegasus can switch o...