HRW among Targets of Pegasus Spyware: Daily Brief
| · HRW staff member targeted by spyware; · |
| January 26, 2022 |
| Lama was notified by @Apple that state-sponsored attackers may be targeting her personal iPhone. Our forensic analysis confirmed that her current and former iPhones had been infected by #Pegasus. @AmnestyTech reviewed and confirmed our findings. https://t.co/bl8CAASC1L |
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| Lama Fakih, Crisis and Conflict director and head of the Beirut office at Human Rights Watch, was targeted with Pegasus spyware five times between April and August 2021. Pegasus is secretly introduced on people’s mobile phones without even a single click from users. Once on the device, it can be a powerful surveillance tool that gains complete access to its camera, calls, media, microphone, email, text messages, enabling surveillance of the person targeted and their contacts. Governments should ban the sale, and use of surveillance technology until human rights safeguards are in place. |
| I explained the toll of the #Pegasus attack against me to @guardian @skirchy: “My entire career has been about trying to protect people’s rights. And suddenly they were trying to use that work to undermine them.” Check out her report: https://t.co/XA3KwpMpcf |
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