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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...

It would have been done without judicial permission and also tracked the mobiles of former employees of state corporations and two mayors. The Pegasus cyber espionage program is once again making headlines in the Israeli media. But this time not because of the claim that another country has used it to spy on activists or journalists instead of the declared purpose (fight against international terrorism and crime) for which it bought the sophisticated system from the Israeli company NSO.  The reason is that, as revealed by the Israeli newspaper 'Calcalist', the Police have used the software to penetrate the mobile phones of Israeli citizens and extract information from them without permission or judicial supervision. "The Police bought Pegasus in 2013 but it was in 2015 when he started using it from his cybernetic unit," explains the author of the journalistic investigation. His article has led civil associations and parties on both the right and the left to demand an ...

The United States has blacklisted an Israeli company that makes Pegasus spyware to spy on the phones of workers, journalists, corporate executives and politicians around the world. According to the foreign news agency 'AFP', the spyware company NSO is in the midst of controversial news these days. The U.S. Department of Commerce said in a statement that Pegasus spyware has enabled foreign governments to coerce intercontinental, an act of dictatorial regimes that seek to silence dissent from opponents outside their sovereign border, Target journalists and activists. In response, the Israeli company NSO responded by saying that its technologies support US national security interests and policies by preventing terrorism and crime. "We are working to overturn the US decision," an NSO spokesman said. Several contacts with government agencies that misuse our products have been lost," he added. Washington has also targeted the Singapore-based Computer Security Initiativ...