Wow: Jeff Bezos's phone and the Washington Post chief editor would have been infected by Mohammed ben Salmane in person, thanks to a rogue video sent via WhatsApp by the crown prince to the richest man in the world.
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The intrusion, which would have allowed information to be sucked for months (do you remember the blackmail of the intimate photos of which Bezos was a victim? The Saudis were already suspected:
france24.com/en/20190208-be…).
It started 5 months before Khashoggi's murder.
Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, took up the matter. Details could be added in the coming days. Will Saudi Arabia be summoned to explain itself ?
According to @FT, which was able to consult the expert report, speaks of "dozens of gigabits" sucked up for months. And adds that it is currently impossible to verify which software was used to infect Bezos' phone.
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In 2018, @haaretzcom told how NSO approached the Saudis in late 2017, a few months before the purge launched by MBS, to sell them their spyware, Pegasus.
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Here's the full press release from @JeffBezos on the phone hacking !
#JeffBezos
Several computer security researchers point to the weaknesses in the expert report on the siphoning of Bezos' phone. Two remarks:
- Bezos ordered the report
- The @citizenlab has already investigated a lot about NSO
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