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Journalist’s iPhone hacked by Saudi Arabia with Pegasus spyware

October 27, 2021

A journalist for the New York Times, Ben Hubbard, recently discovered that his phone had been hacked not once, but twice by malicious parties during his work around the Middle East.

Both times, his iPhone was infiltrated using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, which The Pegasus Project has long been working to dismantle and identify its victims (some of which have ended up murdered). In fact, there were a total of four attempts discovered in the code on Hubbard’s phone: the first two came in the form of dangerous links sent via a WhatsApp message, and a text message.

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