• Russia appears to be targeting journalists with spyware known as Pegasus.

  • Pegasus is a “zero-click” software, hacking phones by sending texts that don’t need to be opened.

  • The software has targeted dozens of journalists, activists, and politicians in recent years.

  • Nabs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Now inform everyone else that other countries are targeting with pegasus

    *edit: spelling

    • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net
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      1 year ago

      They do, and they’ve shared the counter measure (lockdown mode) with the world.

      If a nation state will individually target someone, they don’t need to doom scroll on insta (nor do they need to). Locking down the phone to the bare minimum for these kind of people is the appropriate level of response.