hundreds of thousands have fled the celebrated concrete jungle. those who remain know that restoring its my tallahassee will be easy. people in power asks whether the city can bounce back to its former glory. saving new york on a jazz ah, $1200.00 gmc here and also iran, come all santa maria, and these are the headlines armenian voting in a tight snap parliamentary election. prime minister nichol passion, yon resigned and then triggered ban vote, hoping to renew his mandate. following last year, defeat and the conflict with the by john, the reformist is up against the former president roberts custodian re challenge with more now from yet of it's supposed to be another 2 years until elections happen in armenia. but because of that conflict,

because of the last because of nicole passion, yann's plumber in support. he brought this forward. he wants to basically see this as a way of reaffirming his popularity and giving him another mandate to pursue the reform agenda that he has been trying to push through over the last 3 years of power, rebecca cherry, and his, his main adverse re in this election there are plenty of others, so it's a feel the policies and launches that stretches to about 26. but they're the main to rebecca cherry and has been calling for nicholas. actually, i'm a traitor and has been pushing the line that he is going to be tough. all insecurity. he's going to reassert armenia, is military strength. we'll have to wait and see, of course, what the electorate see and all of this. it's been a pretty vicious campaign with lots of naughty language being thrown around by size,

and there are plenty of people in all mania who are sick with the whole thing, particularly those who lost loved ones, sons, brothers fathers, in the race and fighting those that i've been speaking to, i basically saying that that done with the whole thing on to other news and israel's new prime minister, enough totally bennett to describe the iranian president elect. abraham rice is when it's a final wakeup call for world powers for return to the 2015 nuclear deal. you made those comments during a cabinet meeting. re, selection is i would say the last chance for the world powers to wake up before returning to the nuclear agreement and to understand who they're doing business with. these guys are murder, mass murderers, a regime of brutal aim and never be allowed to weapons of mass destruction that will enable it enough to kill 1000 millions. more on that story with our forces in

west jerusalem, you would expect natalie bennett to say something like this. he certainly has been extremely vociferous in his opposition to the jcp iran nuclear deal. and he's making those comments in english, in a cabinet meeting to his colleagues with him, and usually expected to speak in hebrew says obviously a clear message to the outside world. he has been coming in for a great christmas and from the full of prime minister benjamin netanyahu. certainly on his way out of the door. netanyahu kept on criticizing bennett over his in netanyahu's view inability to stand up to iran. and so again, you would expect it to be fairly hard line in his comments about racy whom he also called the butcher of tehran and saying that of all the people that jose could have chosen, he chose this man. so again, that, that is a fairly natural kind of response to those criticisms from that, you know,

who also said that, that, but it wouldn't be able to stand up to the rate to the administration of president biden on the j. c, p. o, a. and there are reports, at least in the reading media, that senior officials believe that this election could lead to a delay in negotiations to return to that deal. and therefore potentially a window of opportunity to try and press the u. s. a bit more in favor of israel's position on the deal. i one other story. i got a sounds president, a chef county has replaced 2 top ministers in charge of security. as taliban fighters escalate their advance to take more territory of general dismiss. mohammed has been appointed, the new defense minister previously held the defense and interior ministry posts and served as chief ami stuff after the fall of the taliban back in 2001. you are up to date with the headlines once again, we'll update them again about 25 minutes. now they're out of the world. ah,

the 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 promoters, era, and picked an extraordinary story of 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. 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 really in living again,

i'm out of food because of the live of money and the backend he was working on the mobile, on the in know about her been cut off and cut the letter for the 3rd test on the amendment. i've had these. hello me. how does your arabic investigative report a 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 land, an international research laboratory based in canada, that 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 vis. 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, but 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. it was 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 use 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 i so group we found in a brochure and 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 streamline 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, pegasus 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. most of them allow me in the if he how he should go home, how do you men wish that someone tell from within the huff a way the way as you list this what alaska eligibility yeah. element will be the customer will do her. should it get more about a little cover was off at the thought was a little slightly r n a say,

which is called unit a $200.00. it's pretty big. we allow them to grade 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 u. s. 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 was 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. and what sab, especially at a time when some targeted victims appeared to meet with dreadful consequences. it

came, she left a law 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 bizarre gama. so all of them he saw, i saw, nor was there. so let's not next week. why up on me? she never mexico visual to be the one i make. see connie, there's a lot of nozzles whole on the layer a cou away. each will ny she a do. i will be called to mr 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 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, ah, while working as an investigative journalist, almost how was he sweats 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 citizens 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 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 packets. the 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 or more, have it ito,

and that you more like legal 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, doesn't zillow, does a l. i'm highs in mexico in law. got the same love a deep wildly whole day meal, the ot, and the holly, or the laying, the columbia of bell. ben old mid bo lum. i'm working on this investigation terminal miss. how 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. our miss hall had used the same form 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 g. 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's 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, packets a 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 where clicked on anything or went to any website. so what we think happened is that these communications with the apple servers delivered the initial exploits

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 say 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 increasing 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 looked 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 the hacking took 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. it's a 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 they're 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 that, 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

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