The presence in the data of a very small number of landlines and US numbers, which NSO says are “technically impossible” to access with its tools, reveals some targets were selected by NSO clients even though they could not be infected with Pegasus. While the data is an indication of intent, the presence of a number in the data does not reveal whether there was an attempt to infect the phone with spyware such as Pegasus, the company’s signature surveillance tool, or whether any attempt succeeded. The consortium believes the data indicates the potential targets NSO’s government clients identified in advance of possible surveillance. Amnesty’s Security Lab, a technical partner on the project, did the forensic analyses. More than 80 journalists have worked together over several months as part of the Pegasus project. Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based nonprofit journalism organisation, and Amnesty International initially had access to the list and shared access with 16 media organisations including the Guardian. The data also contains the time and date that numbers were selected, or entered on to a system. The Center said that the leaked information includes personal data, such as the surname and first name specified at the time of registration in the app, phone number, nickname, as well as user IDS that are generated during registration and used by the program to identify senders and recipients of messages inside the program.Ī preliminary study showed a match of more than 50% of the compromised data, which indicates the relevance of the threat to the Uzbek segment of messenger users.Īll these data can be used, for example, for calling on the principle of "cold calls", calls with subsequent debiting of funds from the balance, for sending intrusive ads, as well as for other nefarious purposes, such as saving user photos (avatars) with the subsequent possibility of their unauthorized use, the center's specialists warned.The data leak is a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers that, since 2016, are believed to have been selected as those of people of interest by government clients of NSO Group, which sells surveillance software. The database has had a total of 40,640,449 contacts, of which 50,062 are contact numbers of Uzbek mobile operators, the Information Security Center of Uzbekistan reported. The data of several million users of the Telegram messenger has recently been leaked by hackers.
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