Pegasus is India’s Watergate moment
Intelligence gathering needs to be professionalised, parliamentary oversight introduced, and liberties and law protected
-
Amazon Deals - ToS - Like us?
The Project Pegasus
- Thread starter Sushubh
- Start date
- Replies 142
- Views 27,884
-
- Tags
- nso group surveillance
The Pegasus saga and the legality of surveillance in India | In Focus podcast
Apar Gupta speaks to us on the constitutionality of electronic surveillance in India and whether the laws that govern them are robust enough
Spy in hand: On Pegasus spyware issue
The Govt. must come clean on the issues raised by revelations of phone surveillance
iMessage runs some complex parsing code on the messages it receives. Attacker will send you an image or something, That code will run automatically and end up exposing your device to the attacker. You don't have to do anything.
This was even worse before iOS 14. After iOS 14, They tried to fix this by making a BlastDoor process that was a isolated process with very limited privilege. This process would do all the parsing. The idea was that, By parsing untrusted data in a separate isolated process, They can improve security of the device but this vulnerability shows they weren't successful and even after all this effort, iOS 14.6 is still vulnerable.
also just random info...
There is a company that buys zero days like this(Zerodium). 0 Click 0 days go for 2M USD, 1 click 0 days go for 1M USD. They have a whole chart somewhere.
Telegram founder listed in leaked Pegasus project data
Pavel Durov, who built reputation on creating unhackable app, selected by NSO client government
‘Chronology Samajhiye’: Hours After Midnight Coup, CBI Chief Alok Verma Entered Surveillance Zone
Leaked list contains numbers of Alok Verma and family, and of Rakesh Asthana, against whom the CBI had filed a case, triggering alarm bells at the highest levels of Modi government
Person of Interest had nothing on this. They had to get on close proximity to clone the phone.
Similar threads
