Israel police used Pegasus software to spy on Israelis
Politicians, opposition protest leaders, and government employees were bugged and tracked without authorization.
The infamous NSO’s Pegasus spyware was used to remotely hack phones and extract information from Israeli citizens, local business news outlet Calcalist claims.
Among the victims of the police, hackings are the leaders of 2020 protests against former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, local mayors, former governmental employees, and a person close to a senior politician.
Pegasus spyware acts through iPhone and Android mobile devices and lets it access messages, emails, photos, or even secretly record calls and activate microphones.
Information obtained by the outlet shows that the special police operation cyber unit carried out the operations.
Israel police denied the accusations, while representatives of the NSO Group refused to comment on the spyware’s use by one of its clients. The police force of Israel started using Pegasus in 2013.
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