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ready 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

the 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 room, cuz every system can be hacked. 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 it's victims? well, it's very little in the actual detail behind the pegasus is 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 fair, les leslie and live in a kennel model phone because sort of had, he felt with him,

we could live at one and the mc n usa, i'm had a mold walk in l as in some mold. what had i only in new york about of men? a lot of them could the solidify you for be 30 here, the saudi men and had the follow with. oh, to see the 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 or 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 uh, 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 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 the 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 else? alaska eligibility yeah. element of the customer? well, who do i have the i should get more talk about leo 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 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 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 i. p is 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 and 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 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 lab exposed, and a 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 really going to be used on the, on show public. if you were to target everyone in math net, i don't think that would be as important to the people behind it. they didn't want to see my day to day that was 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 horse 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 mostly elizabeth lane or the bell of a so didn't know how would you she aqua of us for love me dog they love god monkwood serve monkwood to have my will ma'am. let myself go muscle. i love them. he does, i only saw nor was they, 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 and shallow. the yeoman hud do nail. um, 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 receipt, 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 beat the haunts in mid denote it of, in a haunted as a get on the go go me miley money off on lloyd. they are the mortality zillow on themselves as a ally, melissa le mexico, a mac law commission movie love a so deep e. mahala lane hold amiable york and the mahala layer ardelane lay the columbia of bell ben mill, admitting old bo lome. by 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 erred 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 syncing 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 if so, packets of 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, your 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 full death 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 listen into 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 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 hack into 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 lad. i'm allies the data connected to the hacking technology which targeted these devices. the hack appeared to be part of an organized campaign

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. e and israel. ah.

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