BREAKING: Major new investigation from @FbdnStories into a leaked list of 50,000+ phone numbers that are said to have been looked up by NSO Group's customers, perhaps as a prelude to the customers hacking into the phones washingtonpost.com/investigations…
The leaked number lists show data going back to 2016, and are believed to come from a subset of NSO clients in 10 countries (Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Hungary, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE).
.@FbdnStories worked with @AmnestyTech to investigate 67 phones on the leaked list, and discovered that 37 showed signs of hacking. We @citizenlab peer-reviewed the forensic methodology, and also examined four of the phones four of the phones: citizenlab.ca/2021/07/amnest…
The forensic analysis mainly involved using the DataUsage.sqlite file to look for Pegasus's distinctive process names (though there were also a couple other bits that @AmnestyTech used). You can read their full methodology here: amnesty.org/en/latest/rese…
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