PEGASUS SPYWARE
It has been reported that pegasus, that malicious software, has allegedly been used to secretly monitor and spy on an extensive host of public figures in India.
ABOUT
- It is a type of malicious software or malware classified as spyware.
- It is designed to gain access to devices, without the knowledge of users, and gather personal information and relay it back to whoever it is that is using the software to spy.
- Pegasus has been developed by the Israeli farm NSO group that was set up in 2010.
- The earliest version of pegasus discovered, which was captured by researchers in 2016, infected phones through what is called spearphishing – text messages on emails that trick a target into clicking on a malicious link.
- Since then, however, NSO’s attack capabilities have become more advanced. Pegasus infections can be achieved through so-called ” Zero-Click ” attacks, which do not require any interaction from the phone’s owner in order to succeed.
