to them a rock and a hard place analogy 0. me play an important role. protecting human 9, the doctor's face. ah ah hello, i'm darn jordan, joe hall with a quick reminder. the top stories here on our 0, iranians are out voting to pick their next president. they have a choice between 4 candidates, the conservative head of the judiciary abraham races widely seen as the frontrunner, with support from the hard liners, dosage barrios more now from the rainy and capital terror. we've been people trickling into this mos in north carolina and it's one of the 72000 pulling station across the country where 6xww eligible voters are at could turn out to

vote, but it's very unlikely we'll get high numbers this time around. i'll show you behind me. this is where people are of voting. they're casting their ballot at the moment they are what they do is they have a list of candidates that they choose from. there's also city council elections taking place at the same time. then what you see here is the ballot boxes on the right. they will cast their votes when they are finished picking their candidates. and as you move to the right of them there, they officials that are sitting. there are the ones that register the candid, the people with their ideas and they give them their papers to choose the candidates. so it's a process that moves quite quickly. there is a lot of support behind every game, right? you think is the head of the countries judiciary. he was appointed to that post by the supreme leader himself. he will have to resign if he is chosen as a wrong 13th president. of course his platform has been very vague. he has said very little, he hasn't had a huge public presence during the campaign period,

but there is a sense that his favorite, because the general public has really one thing on their mind. and they want some change from the moderate reform government. they've been over the past years, there is a sense such as the economic situation in the country is not going to change any time so, so they're hoping with every bracy they will see some kind of a change take place in iran for my ivory coast president long back bo has returned home 10 years after being expedited for war crimes. he was tried and acquitted by the international criminal court, the charges date back to 2010. when he refuse to concede defeat to a presidential election. ottoman interest has more from amazon. well, the last one i want that's been said is free for photos on brussel in buses, on cars, on motorcycle, on put, moving towards the headquarters just far away from where we are now. the support just telling us they are going to party all night in the midst of the site month.

you also yeah. anger. you hear about frustration there also? yeah. about the possibility of challenging the party in power. want to clear, is that or is back home 10 years after and the process of recommendation could take longer than expected zambia founding president kenneth cohen has di days, 97. after a short illness, he led the country from independence in from 1964 until 991 count. the opposed apartheid south africa and white minority rule in rhodesia now and bob way, the humans record g agency says the number of people fleeing warren crises is doubled in the past decade. 82000000 displaced the most on recalls also says code 19 made it much harder for people fleeing war, a persecution to leave safety. israel says it's launched as strikes on garza targeting, how much science it says it was in response to an standard balloons being flown

into southern israel, it's putting pressure on a sci fi, but it isn't us which came into effect almost a month ago. there's been no let up in the volume for me and my videos posted on central media show most buildings destroyed and can not village residence or choose the military of firing at them before burning any 200 hens as well as killing capitol. the u. s. supreme court has rejected a challenge to the affordable care act was known as obamacare. the judges rule 7 to 2, rejecting the republican challenges the 3rd time the court has preserved the law since it was introduced back in 2010. yes, president joe biden assigned a bill making what's become known as june 18th, the federal holiday congress approved the legislation about june 19th, collaboration of the day when the last and slave african americans learned that they were free. so those are the headlines. the news continues here after out there are well despite in your phone that you've done so much bye for now. the.

ready ah, the in mid 2020, a mobile phone belonging to odyssey or arabic, was hacked over the next few months, working with an organization called the citizen lab. between for mosier and picked an extraordinary story, or some of the most advanced spyware in the world. and how it's used,

not least on august 11th journalists ah, with a click of a button, you can bring down nations to their news very rapidly if you so desire. and if you're willing to take them, because every system can be a israel manufacturers pegasus. some of the most advanced spyware in the world. it 1st came to attention in 2016. since then, various governments have bought the spyware for their own use. questions today are, how does pegasus work? who is using it, and who it's victims? well, there's very little in the actual details behind the pegasus spyware. the code, the malicious code that was used, that's very, very difficult to find out more about thought was a leslie in living again,

i'm out of food because of this home without having to leave a month. and then i can use, i had a more work in a dozen from mobile. i have a on the in know about her, been cut off and cut the syllabus for the 3rd test on the amendment. i've had these hello odyssey or arabic, investigative report. time that followed a complicated technical process to track this infamous spyware. over many months, he had one of his own phones, monitored constantly with the help of citizen lad, an international research laboratory based in canada, but specializes in data surveillance. citizen la was the 1st to expose the existence of israel's pegasus spyware. in 2016, they disclose details of what they called on exploit. infrastructure connected to a phone belonging to an activist from the united arab emirates, the infiltration,

the heck led to the arrest of a madman saw remains in prison to this day. the new hacking technique was called as 0 day exploits. and pegasus was, the spyware used to infiltrate months whose phone bill muscle from citizen lab has worked for several years to expose pegasus. so what happened in 2016 started with this man. i had one source, the activist in the u. e. and he noticed some suspicious messages on his phone that he was getting the s m s. he thought they were weird because they came from unknown numbers and they were promising information about human rights. so he forwarded them to me at citizen lab. we had known each other for a while. i got a burner phone, not obviously my, my real phone burner phone and clicked on the links. and while i was doing this, i was recording the internet traffic and recording the activity on the phone and

what was installed. when i clicked the link was a very sophisticated spyware payload. and the interesting question was, well, who could be behind us? who might have programmed the spyware who might have sold it, who might be using it, and the process to figure that out is called attribution. so what we did in the report is we noticed that when you clicked on the link a 2nd time, it wouldn't cause the infection is only limited to the 1st click. and the 2nd click would send you to a decoy website to try and make it look innocuous or benign. so we clicked on the 2nd time we got redirected to google, but it wasn't just any redirect to google. it was a very specific piece of code that someone had sat down and written on their computer. so we figured, well, maybe this is part of this spyware somehow. and if we can scan the internet, we can find other servers that had the same weird redirect to google. so this is

exactly what we did. we used the popular open source v map program. we scan the internet and found 149 other servers, and this is where it gets interesting because this 2nd redirect to google was also returned by 3 servers. and s o q a dot com q a n q a dot com, and mail one dot and s o group dot com and the name here. and so group we found in a brochure in these really government's website. they had a brochure for this company, and so group, which is based in israel, and sells a product called pegasus, which is spyware, for mobile phones. in the case of pegasus citizen lab did very good work and was very, very conclusively able to say that pegasus had been written by and over. but it's actually stream li, rare that we're able to get that sort of concrete attribution and say this malware was written by this company. the n s o group is

a technology company based in hatch layer in israel founded in 2010. it employs over 500 cybersecurity experts, package, the spyware is viewed as its most important product use. israel is one of the most sophisticated cyber actors in the world. and i think that a lot of this is because the israeli army is training people to do this. sort of offensive, packing for you know, in their military service, more of them allow me in if he, how he should get home, how do you men wish that someone left within the huff a way the way is? is that what alaska eligibility? yeah. element will be the customer who do have a shuttle remark about lira harbor was off at the thought was a little slightly

r n a say which is called unit a 200. it's pretty big. we allow them to create companies. and we, and order for the companies to develop, they need to make what they need to make money. they need to make money. thomas almost house spoke to william benny, who for over 30 years, worked with the us national security agency, a former cryptography. and later, a whistleblower common benny was the n s. a technical leader of intelligence. many has a high level understanding of the agencies data collection systems. what that means is, any i phone or any phone in the world, 1st connecting to the network, when you want to use it, you're immediately known worldwide. i mean, all the switches have you an, a capture your ip and all, and your phone and mac numbers and all that. that's how they bill you. so that also

is the known by the network and the implants, computer network exploitation implants, they have around the world over this was in 2004 or 2010, somewhere in that range. they had over 50000 implants and all these switches, servers and networks worldwide. i mean that means they own the entire network. so that if you, your phone comes on the air, then they can, they can know who you are and where you are when citizen loud exposed to n. s. so, and it's peggy spyware. in 2016, it attracted, worldwide control oversee. and as so, claims its mission is to develop technology for government agencies to quote, detect and prevent terrorism and crime. however, the nature of its targets, the individuals whose phones happy packed, raises questions about these claims. when this was released

a few years ago, it was mainly targeted on human rights activists, journalists, and politicians, and targeted people, maybe of people with high wealth. but it's never really going to be used on the, on joe public. if you were to target everyone in math net, i don't think that will be as important to the people behind it. they don't want to see my day today that will see your day today going off to specific people. the danger of such spyware is its ability to infiltrate every piece of private information and hacked a targeted device to the most used applications. in 2019 whatsapp owned by facebook accused and so of hacking the popular communications to this waste fear, amongst the huge numbers of global users in fort sab, especially at a time when some targeted victims appeared to meet with dreadful consequences. it

came. she left a la softly darville visit phone miss. they must say, listen lane with the bell over so did the little house, fuji j. a couple of us for lovely dogs de la garza, my uncle, shave mon cortez my will mail the bazaar. most of them he saw, i saw, nor was there something makes me quite up on me. she never mexico visual to be the one i make. see connie, there's a lot of nozzles to hold on the layer a qu away. it will ny she a do i will be called to miss the la la la v. oh my god do when they alarm. so if you do think that you are someone who is an important target, you're likely to face scrutiny by some government in the middle east or elsewhere. and you are a journalist, an activist, or a member of civil society. i'd recommend that yes, please do get in touch with,

with citizen lab or other researchers who work in this space in the art. yeah. any other time at all? and michelle wanted to know how difficult it was to monitor a phone, suspected or being hacked. and here how many a santa basically it involves installing an app on the phone, which allows us to inspect the internet traffic. and we do this for some period of time, depending on what the user would like. we can do it for a short time. we can do it for a long time and try and identify suspicious patterns or evidence that the phone might be hacked me with while working as an investigative journalist almost how was he swipes and other suspicious messages through different apps? the threats increased over the months ramping up. as he worked on more sensitive regional subjects. he decided to install a tracking up on his work phone, developed by citizen lab to trace possible hacking

the conventional way to hack a smart phone is to send a suspicious message to the targeted form that includes a short text and a leg. when the user clicks on the link, software takes control of the phone and thus makes the device accept any command sent through the link. the device is then automatically connected to a server used by the hackers, and that is how the spyware gets installed on the phone. the user doesn't see the spyware on their phone, which is already being hacked. the hackers can then control the device and all its functions. the main challenge for spyware is to find a vulnerability in the targeted phone, particularly as modern smartphone security protection techniques have developed significantly,

package as managed to advance this capability considerably. to be able to penetrate the various kinds of smartphone. once the infection happens, the malware itself did the same stuff that we see a lot of malware do, which is a spy on phone calls, spy on text messages, and whatsapp messages and any other encrypted messages you're sending and turn on your microphone and turn your camera what made it especially sophisticated was that they were willing to use brand new exploits for i. phones to infects their victims and some of these exploits could cost upwards of a $1000000.00 each supply or pegasus spyware, to its clients, cost millions of dollars, and it can only used for a limited period of time. that means targeting a large number of smartphones for long periods of time, cost hundreds of millions of dollars. this extremely expensive cars, raises questions. who can afford this spyware?

who are an esl groups, main clients, on its website, and as a group says, its spyware is, quote, used exclusively by government intelligence, as efficiently requested by the governance themselves. does this mean that pegasus cannot be purchased by other parties? when people leave the israeli military service, they have all this very specialized, very highly sought after wellpaid knowledge. and so they take it to private companies such as an ogre, right? and then they, they sell it to countries that are known to violate human rights. because you know, even though they are perhaps very intelligent about computer security, they clearly haven't thought so much about the human rights implications of what they're doing. or maybe they don't care tag us all of a lot. but each it ito. and that you,

more than likely english means more mish doubled, she'll be the honcho may denote or of any haunches. again on the go go. mom on the lawyer. they are the mortality zillow, 1000 themselves of l. i'm highs in mexico in the same love a deep wildly hold amiable yacht. and the holly air or the columbia of bell. or mid, you know, bow lum. i'm working on this investigation time on this house, so many signs of hacking attempts on his phone. the one he had fitted out to track any infiltration. after 7 months on the 19th of july 2020, he received a phone call from citizen lab informing him that the phone had been hacked. the hacking happened a few days after he had entered an investigative documentary about an indian tie.

truth which disclosed controversial leaked documents about the tie tunes linked to the us eat and his flight from the country are miss hall. had used the same phone to communicate with officials and individuals in the u. e. in order to give them the right to reply to the allegations and the film. so the 1st thing that we saw on your phone was on july 19th between about 103311288. m g m cheap. there were a very high number of connections to apple servers. now usually your phone will just communicate one apple server for icloud, for your backups, for your contact thinking the information. but in this case, in less than an hour, we saw your phone communicate with 18 different apple servers. and this was very unusual. you don't usually see this on phones, so that was the 1st clue that something suspicious was going on. and immediately

after this communication stopped, we saw your phone reach out to this website regular hours dot net. in other words, your phone connected to this website, and this website stands out, because we know from our research, a citizen lab that regular ours dot net, this website is linked to an a. so group pegasus spyware. so we saw your phone reaching out to this and if so, pegasus spyware server, which led us to suspect, and then later conclude that your phone was infected. so what we can see from the recording of your internet traffic. so let's go to this point in time here, 1129, where the phone communicates with the packets a server. and we can look beforehand to see what was going on immediately before that. and the only thing that we see is this communication with i cloud with apple servers. we don't see any evidence that you pressed on a link or clicked on anything or went to any website. so what we think happened is

that these communications with the apple servers delivered the initial x like to have your phone. in other words, you didn't click on anything. your phone was automatically hacked, a so called 0 click, like we said 0 click exploits delivered through apple servers. this is a very expensive export. yes, this is if you think about the sophistication of exports to break into phones. this is as good as it gets 0 click means hacking, without clicking on any links. pegasus does not require any action by the user or a click on any suspicious links. the user receives a call from an unknown caller through the internet, and the phone gets hacked, even without answering the phone call. after that pegasus spyware is installed on the targeted phone. taking full control of the device is definitely the most sophisticated attack i've seen in the last few years. the fact it was able to be

installed on a target device without the target isn't clicking anything, so 0 click attack. this is incredibly impressive and i did a very rarely thing to better do that. it so sophisticated. but as it is rare, it's difficult for us to really know much more about it. and something of this method she was able to be conducted to still such data is a bit of a worry. see how that struck 0 cliff tom. i don't miss how i wanted to know if the 0 click process enable to complete access to all the applications and content on his folder for the island you had as far as we know, they can access everything on the phone. we saw from looking at the log files on your phone that they were able to access the media framework so they were able to turn on the microphone turn on the camera if they wanted to,

and listen into meetings or conversations going on around your device. they were also able to tap into the key chain on the front, and this is where your passwords for email accounts. social media maybe stored the fact that citizen lab was tracking thomas phone helped him take precautionary measures to prevent sensitive information being accessed. the most important thing was for him to discover the moment of the hack into place and who else was affected . we found working together with, i'll just here as i t team is that your case was not the only one. there were at least $36.00 other cases inside ultra 0, a phones that we're communicating with servers that we linked to. and so groups, pegasus spyware. in other words, there were many different people at odyssey or who were hacked and target is not just you all miss holland, the team from citizen lab analyze the data connected to the hacking technology

which targeted these devices. the hack appeared to be part of an organized campaigns targeting symbol teeniest, the mobile phones of dozens of just a journalist in order to spy on them. according to citizen labs technical report, israel's pegasus spyware, was used to infiltrate these phones by looking at the links and the accounts, the hacking of the phones was carried out, mainly in the e and saudi arabia. the 2 countries that most use this advanced israeli technology in the region. well, what we saw with the infection inside l just 0. is that about half of them were from this operator that we call monarchy. if the code name that we give these operators when we refer to them inside citizen lab, and this operator is spying mostly in saudi arabia and cutter,

but not very many other countries. so this tells us, well, if there spying mostly in saudi arabia, maybe it is, in fact the saudi arabian government and the other half were from this other operator that we call smithy castro inside citizen lab. and this operator seems to be mostly targeting inside the united arab emirates and color. so this tells us that the government, in this case may be the united arab emirates government, in other words, to different governments. it, like we're behind this campaign, ah, deals to purchase pegasus spyware on no longer a secret. many reports claim that saudi arabia and the u. e. have spent hundreds of millions of us dollars to buy packages from israel. such deals seemed to be reinforced after the recent us brokers so called normalization deal between the us

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