Peace through Pegasus: Jordanian Human Rights Defenders and Journalists Hacked with Pegasus Spyware

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2022-04-05

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Phones belonging to four Jordanian human rights defenders, lawyers, and journalists were hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware between August 2019 and December 2021. We assess that at least two of the four targets were hacked by Pegasus operators primarily focused on Jordan, based on SMS messages containing Pegasus links that map to a cluster of domain names focusing on Jordanian themes.

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Pegasus, spyware, Jordan, human rights, hacking, mobile, surveillance

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Mohammed Al-Maskati, Bill Marczak, Siena Anstis, and Ron Deibert. “Peace through Pegasus: Jordanian Human Rights Defenders and Journalists Hacked with Pegasus Spyware,” Citizen Lab Report No. 153, University of Toronto, April 2022.

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