{"id":125284,"date":"2021-07-21T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/heres-how-to-check-your-phone-for-pegasus-spyware-using-amnestys-tool"},"modified":"2021-07-21T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T01:22:17","slug":"heres-how-to-check-your-phone-for-pegasus-spyware-using-amnestys-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/heres-how-to-check-your-phone-for-pegasus-spyware-using-amnestys-tool","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how to check your phone for Pegasus spyware using Amnesty\u2019s tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-how-to-check-your-phone-for-pegasus-spyware-using-amnestys-tool2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International \u2014 part of the group that helped break the news of journalists and heads of state being targeted by NSO\u2019s government-grade spyware, Pegasus \u2014 has released a tool to check if your phone has been affected. Alongside the tool is a great set of instructions, which should help you through the somewhat technical checking process. Using the tool involves backing up your phone to a separate computer and running a check on that backup. Read on if you\u2019ve been side-eyeing your phone since the news broke and are looking for guidance on using Amnesty\u2019s tool.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The process is straightforward, but it requires some patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International \u2014 part of the group that helped break the news of journalists and heads of state being targeted by NSO\u2019s government-grade spyware, Pegasus \u2014 has released a tool to check if your phone has been affected. Alongside the tool is a great set of instructions, which should help you through the somewhat technical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1490,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-government","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}