Spyware doctor license hack

The others do not, and wish to remain anonymous, Frontline Defenders says. An Israeli defense official said in a brief statement that the designation of the six organizations was based on solid evidence and that any claim it is related to the use of NSO software is unfounded. The statement had no other details, and officials declined requests for further comment.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss security matters. Critics say the process is opaque. That led them to question claims by NSO Group that exported versions of Pegasus cannot be used to hack Israeli phone numbers. Among those hacked was Ubai Aboudi, a year-old economist and U. He runs the seven-person Bisan Center for Research and Development in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, one of the six groups Gantz slapped with terrorist designations on Oct.

The other two hacked Palestinians who agreed to be named are researcher Ghassan Halaika of the Al-Haq rights group and attorney Salah Hammouri of Addameer, also a human rights organization. He was especially concerned about eavesdroppers being privy to his communications with foreign diplomats. Israel says the groups are linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a leftist political faction with an armed wing that has killed Israelis.

Aboudi served a month sentence last year after being convicted of charges of involvement in the PFLP but denies ever belonging to the group. Last year, anti-corruption officials searched Giertych's home and office in a manner a Polish court deemed illegal and the EU called emblematic of how Poland's government treats hostile lawyers in politically sensitive cases.

Giertych called this absurd and said the financial wrongdoing investigation was trumped-up, that a Poznan court had already dismissed it for lack of evidence. Prosecutors say he is suspected of money laundering for legal fees he received in a Warsaw property dispute case a decade ago. They believe Wrzosek was similarly hacked. Citizen Lab found six intrusions on her phone from June Aug.

Last year, Wrzosek ordered an investigation into whether presidential elections should be postponed over concerns they could threaten the health of voters and election workers. State Department employees in Uganda. The hacking of their phones are the first two confirmed cases of Pegasus military grade spyware being used against targets in Poland, where an illiberal government is eroding democratic norms.

Wrzosek, a prosecutor who is resisting a political takeover of the system of state prosecution, and an erosion of judicial independence more broadly under Poland's right-wing populist government, was the target of cellphone eavesdropping this year. She and a prominent Polish lawyer have become the first two confirmed cases involving the use of Pegasus military grade spyware against targets in Poland, where an illiberal government is eroding democratic norms.

Giertych, a fierce opponent of Poland's right-wing ruling party who defends some opposition politicians, was the target of aggressive cellphone eavesdropping in Nour said he suspected Egyptian military intelligence in the Cytrox hack. An Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman did not respond to calls and texts requesting comment.

Cytrox was part of a shadowy alliance of surveillance tech companies known as Intellexa that was formed to compete with NSO Group. Founded in by a former Israeli military officer and entrepreneur named Tal Dilian, Intellexa includes companies that have run afoul of authorities in various countries for alleged abuses.

The company allegedly sold spy tech to Libya in and to Egypt in Intellexa said its tools are used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies against terrorists and crimes including financial fraud. The Associated Press left messages for Dilian and also tried to reach Intellexa through a form on its website, but received no response.

The hacker-for-hire industry is facing increased scrutiny as well as regulatory and legal pressure.