a lot with me. hello, i'm down jordan in dough with the top stories here on al jazeera sedans, military has appointed a new ruling counsel more than 2 weeks after seizing power. general abdel fata albert han was also the army chief, has been sworn in to had it up. the 14 member body excludes members of the main civilian coalition and not strong condemnation from the united nations. my comment reports, ah, once again, the protesters take to the streets of cartoon with the city has been at the sent off pro democracy demonstrations since the uprising that overthrew former leader

omar l bashir. the formation of a new sovereign counsel described as an extension of the military takeover. and in the united nations, the office of the secretary general was quick to react. were obviously taking a look at these developments i, i would say they're very concerning that we want to see a return or to the transition as quickly as possible. the transition government was intended to guide the country towards democratic elections in 2023. it was disbanded by military leaders last month, the prime minister placed under house arrest and a number of political figures imprisoned. the security council held a hastily arranged meeting to discuss the crisis. no statement was issued by the council as a whole. the u. k. is the pen holder, which means it takes the lead on the issue. and the ambassador had this to say,

we remain gravely concerned by reports of further unilateral action by the military, which is against the spirit and the letter of the constitutional declaration. we had a very helpful briefing from the special representative of secretary general folk pettis, who was very frank in his assessment that the window now is closing for dialogue and for peaceful resolution. the protestant cartoon could also have been intended to spur international reaction. but for the moment, the security council is weighing what its next action will be. my cana ojo 0 united nations. thousands of people who are trying to cross into the european union remained trapped on the border between bella roofs and poland. the e u was accusing belarus of deliberately letting them cross in what it calls a form of hybrid warfare. the blocks now threatening new sanctions. bela rou says it'll retaliate by cutting off gas supplies to europe. the un security council has

meant to address the border crisis, western countries, including the u. s. and u. k. se beller was trying to destabilize his neighbors and a colon for stronger international action. the bell russian authorities should understand that putting pressure on the european union in this way through a cynical instrumentalists zation of migrants will not succeed. china's ruling communist party has passed a resolution that will pay the way for president she sham ping. to extend his time in power. possibly indefinitely. the motion recognises she is vital to china's wealth and puts him in an equal position with the parties most important historical figures, including the founder mouths don't. she's expected to pursue a 3rd 5 year term breaking with tradition. the un secretary general has delegates at the top $26.00 climate summit to pick up the pay sound. agree on our way forward, daniel. good, ted. it says the effort to keep global warming to one and

a half degrees above pre industrial levels is on life support, discussions and commitments so far. i've failed to meet us goals, floods them, landslides and sure lanka killed at least 26 people. roads in the homes across the country are inundated up to more than a week of rain. more than 200000 people have been effective. and witness testimony has ended in the trial of an american teenager accused of murder during anti racism protest last year. carl rittenhouse says he was defending himself when he shot and killed 2 men and injured a 3rd in canada in wisconsin. he used an assault style weapon and is not a local resident. prosecutor say he's a vigilante. it happened during demonstrations following the police shooting on a black man. closing arguments are set for monday. but those were the headlines that he's continues here now to sierra opt out of the world statement. thanks so much bye for now. ah,

ah, in mid 2020, a mobile phone belonging to al jazeera arabic was hocked over the next few months, working with an organization called citizen lap. the team from al jazeera, unpicked, an extraordinary story of some of the most advanced spyware in the world. and how it's used, not least on al jazeera, as journalists 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 the roof, because every system can be that 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, ah, how does pegasus work? who is using it? and who are its victims? well, it's very little in the actual detail behind pegasus spyware. the code, the malicious code that was used, that's very, very difficult to find out more about how thought was all at the far less leslie and live in a kennel model phone because sort of had, he felt with him. we could live at one and the mac and usa on had a mold walk in able to some sort of old. what had i only in new york about of

a men? a lot of them could the seller, this value for be 30 here, the saudi men had the follow with autism, arabic investigative reporter. time at all, miss ha, 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 lab and an international research laboratory based in canada that specializes in data surveillance. ah, citizen la, who's the 1st to expose the existence of israel's pegasus spyware. in 2016, they disclose details of what they called an exploit infrastructure. connected to a phone belonging to an activist from the united arab emirates, the infiltration, the hack led to the arrest of ob madman. sewer remains in prison to this day.

the new hacking technique was called a 0 day exploits. and pegasus was, the spyware used to infiltrate monsoons formed bill ma sac from citizen lap, has worked for several years to expose pegasus. so what happened in 2016 started with this man. i madman sort of the activist in the u. e. and he noticed some suspicious messages on his phone and that he was getting the asam as 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, a 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 this?

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 . busy 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 a so group we found in a brochure in these really government's website. they had a brochure for this company, and a 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, peg as

a 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 as the list is what alaska is failure. alarm will be, the customer will do heavy or should it get more about. little kaba, 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 and they capture your eyepiece and all, and your phone and at mac numbers and all that. that's how they bill you. so that also is the known by the network in the implants, computer network exploitation implants,

they have around the world over this was in 2004 under 2010, somewhere in that range. they had over 50000 implants and all the 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 lab exposed and so and it's pegasus spyware in 2016, it attracted world wide controversy and a 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 have been hacked, raises questions about these claims. when pegasus 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 gree going to

be used on the, on show public if you would to target everyone in math net. i don't think that would be as important to the people behind it. they don't want to see my day to day that will see your day to day going out to specific people. the danger of such spyware as its ability to infiltrate every piece of private information and hack the targeted device through the most used applications. oh. in 2019 whatsapp owned by facebook accused and eso of hacking the popular communications tool. this raised fear amongst the huge numbers of global users of hort sub, especially at a time when some targeted victims appeared to meet with dreadful consequences. it. i saw him select gala softly darville visit phone miss they him been must

a little lane or the bell of a so need to know how would you she aqua of us for love me dog they love dot mo will shave mo cortez my will mail that muscle go muscle, i loved them. he does i am. he saw, nor was they are still in some mexico. i up on me issue. michelle is mexico visual debate on a mexican, he there's a lot at all nozzles to holland. nearly a clue away, eat till night. she had do, i would be called to a la miss stella vellum, shallow the yeoman hud do when they alum. 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 either or and yeah, any other channel and we saw wanted to know how difficult it was to monitor

a phone, suspected of being hacked. and here, how many s anna basically 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 at a 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 that the phone might be hacked. while working as an investigative journalist almost held was c 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 citizen black to trace possible hacking.

the conventional way to hack a smartphone is to send a suspicious message to the targeted form that includes a short text and a link. when the user clicks on the link, software takes control of the phone and thus makes the device accept any commands 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 has already been packed. 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. pegasus managed to advance this capability considerably to be able to penetrate various kinds of smartphone. once the infection happened,

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 on your camera. um, what made it especially sophisticated was that they were willing to use brand new exploits for i phones to in fact they are victims and some of these exploits could cost upwards of a $1000000.00 each supply of pegasus spyware, to its clients, costs millions of dollars and it can only used for a limited period of time. that means targeting a large number of smartphones from long periods of time, costs hundreds of millions of dollars. this extremely expensive cost raises questions. who can afford this spyware? who are an esl groups, main clients? on its website and as o group says it's spyware is quote,

used exclusively by government intelligence, as efficiently requested by the governments themselves. does this mean that pegasus cannot be purchased by other parties, when people leave the israeli military? or if they have all this very specialized, very highly sought after well paid knowledge. and so they take it to private companies such as an as oh group, right. and then they, they'd sell it to a countries that are known to violate human rights. because you know, even though they are perhaps very intelligent and by 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. vega saws in a vault body and will hail it. eat. doing that you more i went in there like legal singlish name co, mr. holt sil, to be the hans in mid denote it of,

in a haunted to the get on the go go me miley money off on lloyd. they are the mortality zillow on themselves as a ally, ma hinesville, mexico, a mac law commission movie lava, so deep. e. mahala lane, hold amiable york, and the mahala layer ardelane lay the columbia of bell ben mill, admitting old bo, along while working on this investigation. tom, at almost 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 lap, 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. cooper, which disclosed controversial leaked documents about the tie coons linked to the

you iep, and his flight from that country. i'll 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 in the film. so the 1st thing that we saw on your phone was on july 19th between about 103311288 m g m t. 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 and communicate with 18 different apple servers. and this was very unusual. you don't usually see those 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 so pegasus spyware server, which let 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 icloud, 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 exploit 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 color to 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 was definitely the most sophisticated attack i've seen in the last few years. a fact it was able to be installed on a target device without the target,

even clicking on anything. so 0 click attack. this is incredibly impressive. and like, is a very barely thing to better do that. it so sophisticated. but as it is rare, it's difficult for us to, to really know much more about it is something of this method she was able to be conducted to still such data is the bit of a worry. see how that if the rock as you'll click tomato miss hall, wanted to know if the 0 click process or enabled complete access to all the applications and content on his folder that fit in milan. allergy has 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 in to meetings or conversations going on around your device. or they were also able to tap into the key chain on the phone. this is where your passwords

for email accounts, social media may be stored. in the fact, the citizen lab was trucking 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 vote we found working together without the zeros i t team is that your case was not the only one. there were at least $36.00 other cases inside al, jazeera of phones that were communicating with servers that we linked to and s o groups pegasus spyware. in other words, there were many different people at al jazeera who were hacked and targeted. not just you. i'll 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 tenuously,

the mobile phones of dozens of al jazeera journalists 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 u. e. and saudi arabia. the 2 countries that most used this advanced israeli technology in the region for what we saw with the infections inside al jazeera 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 sneaky castro inside citizen lab. and this operator seems to be mostly targeting inside the united arab emirates and cutter. 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 pegasus from israel. such deals seemed to be reinforced after the recent us brokers so called normalization deal between the u. h. e and israel. ah,

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