The Pegasus Project is a collaborative effort by a number of media and advocacy organizations around to the world. With their work, they are shining a light on nation state use a specific malware tool: Pegasus spyware.
Learn more in this short…
Transcript
The Pegasus Project shines a light on an area of cybersecurity not often seen. A collaborative effort across the globe, this reporting dives deeply into the Pegasus spyware sold by the NSO Group and how it’s been used around the world.
[00:00:11] There is a lot to this story and I strongly recommend that you read all of the analysis.
The use of Pegasus is a clear example of what happens when nation states leverage malware to their advantage. Any individual or organization facing a nation state adversary is at an almost insurmountable disadvantage.
[00:00:28] What this situation does highlight is the need for an active, engaged, and well-supported security research community. Security researchers that find vulnerabilities and then responsibly disclose them have a disproportionately positive impact on our security.
[00:00:42] Reporting one critical iPhone vulnerability to Apple so that they can fix it, improves the security of over 1 billion users.
We need to embrace the security research community and help them where we can. It won’t stop issues like Pegasus, but it will help even the odds a little bit.
References
- from the Washington Post, “Takeaways from the Pegasus Project”
- also from the Washington Post, “Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide”
- The Guardian’s coverage, “The Pegasus project”
- from PBS, “THE PEGASUS PROJECT Live Blog: Major Stories from Partners”
- Amnesty International with, “Pegasus Project: Apple iPhones compromised by NSO spyware”
- The Citizen Lab has, “Independent Peer Review of Amnesty International’s Forensic Methods for Identifying Pegasus Spyware”
- “Apple Now Has Over 1 Billion Active iPhones Worldwide, 1.65 Billion Total Devices”, by Mac Rumors
