Six Palestinian human rights defenders hacked with.pdf

Front Line Defenders reports that forensic analysis of 75 iPhones identified six devices belonging to Palestinian human rights defenders infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware between July 2020 and April 2021; Citizen Lab and Amnesty International’s Security Lab independently confirmed the findings. The report includes a timeline of investigation, technical indicators (specific suspicious process names), partial victim identification, and alleges the Israeli government's recent designation of the organisations as 'terrorist' may be linked to or used to justify surveillance; it calls for international condemnation and a moratorium on surveillance technology transfers.