RSF’s recommendations for those who could be spied on by Pegasus
Cenzolovka 26.07.2021
In the wake of the “Pegasus Project” revelation that nearly 200 journalists around the world have been Pegasus spyware targets, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has compiled recommendations for journalists who could themselves be the targets of those who buy this high-performance surveillance software.
Illustration: RSF Pegasus’s strength is due above all to the fact that, “there is no effective way for a user to counter this type of attack,” explains Claudio Guarnieri, an IT security expert at Amnesty International’s Security Lab. Designed by the Israeli company NSO Group, this high-performance spyware is capable of sucking up a phone’s entire content – messages, emails, photos, contacts and so on – without requiring any particular user action and without