How To Check If Your Smartphone Is Infected With Pegasus Spyware

A few days ago, it became known that the malicious utility called Pegasus, created by the Israeli company NSO Group for law enforcement agencies and intelligence services, is widely used to spy on residents of different countries secretly. According to information security specialists, at least 50 thousand devices have been infected around the world. This number does not seem remarkably high, but Pegasus is very dangerous - it allows you to take full control of the smartphone, secretly read correspondence, wiretap phone conversations, view photos and videos. Popular antiviruses cannot detect Pegasus since this malware exploits zero-day vulnerabilities that are unknown to the developers of operating systems and antivirus applications. The human rights organization Amnesty International has developed a utility that allows you to identify this malware. It is called MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit), and its source code is available on GitHub. The MVT utility is compatible with Android and iOS, but there are no ready-made solutions for the quick installation of the application. They need to be compiled for a specific device, which can be done only on a computer with Linux or macOS. The utility saves a backup copy of the data from the smartphone on the computer, scans all data and checks if the device is infected with the Pegasus spyware, and informs the user if information from his device could be compromised and transferred to third parties. This utility, in particular, scans data transfer logs - it is there that infection indicators can most likely be found (information about sending calls history, SMS, IM messages, and other things to a remote server). On iOS, these logs are stored longer than on Android, so it is much easier to detect the Pegasus spyware on the iPhone. Given the complexity of using the Mobile Verification Toolkit, this utility should only be recommended for tech-savvy users or those who suspect Pegasus is tracking them. Information security experts believe that this spyware is used for targeted surveillance. It infects not random devices but only smartphones belonging to specific people whose activities are of interest to those who control this software. Each Pegasus license costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, so surveillance is mainly carried out on those with valuable information (for example, politicians, business leaders or journalists of major publications). Although the Pegasus case has become very popular in the news recently, hundreds of other spy apps continue to run silently and spy on their victims. Many programs operate in a gray area posing as parental control or other legitimate applications. Be careful, practice good digital hygiene, and stay safe.

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[nettcat]

This is why there needs to be dislike count.

[lesterryanmd]

How about introducing a legislation prohibiting spying on other people's devices and declaring it to be a criminal offense punishable in Chinese method by harvesting organs upon weekly stadium garbage removal event? Do we really need that subhuman criminal garbage parasitizing among us?

[vityazsix]

They can also mimic your voice in real time. I called a crypto show and someone called after me using my voice. Creeped me out.

[MrCREWCRUSHIN]

It costs about $100, 000 per target. Do you think someone is gonna target your phone? No.

[vityazsix]

I bet gangstalkers use this. They can read thoughts too maybe thru the phone or clairvoyance. But every time i do a factory reset someone asks to use my phone. I was told certain "corporations" can do it by someone in military counterterrorism.

[wayzfvv]

How qould this even happen? Like hkw would you dowbload this?

[rfhthjw]

I posted on an isrqeli news video saying i can tell you how u can tell if uhave it on your phone and within 18 hours my phone was a paperweight. Now tell me about what i juet said ahould scare you more or as much as the warez?

[julianroybal]

50, 000 that's bulshit I don't believe it

[RedemptionGabeYT]

The democrats in a nutshell spying on you