{"id":125718,"date":"2021-08-01T05:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T12:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/women-allege-that-nso-spyware-was-used-to-steal-and-leak-their-private-photos"},"modified":"2021-08-01T05:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T12:22:36","slug":"women-allege-that-nso-spyware-was-used-to-steal-and-leak-their-private-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/women-allege-that-nso-spyware-was-used-to-steal-and-leak-their-private-photos","title":{"rendered":"Women allege that NSO spyware was used to steal and leak their private photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/women-allege-that-nso-spyware-was-used-to-steal-and-leak-their-private-photos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am used to being harassed online. But this was different,\u201d she added. \u201cIt was as if someone had entered my home, my bedroom, my bathroom. I felt so unsafe and traumatized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oueiss is one of several high-profile female journalists and activists who have allegedly been targeted and harassed by authoritarian regimes in the Middle East through hack-and-leak attacks using the Pegasus spyware, created by Israeli surveillance technology company NSO Group. The spyware transforms a phone into a surveillance device, activating microphones and cameras and exporting files without a user knowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am used to being harassed online. But this was different,\u201d she added. \u201cIt was as if someone had entered my home, my bedroom, my bathroom. I felt so unsafe and traumatized.\u201d Oueiss is one of several high-profile female journalists and activists who have allegedly been targeted and harassed by authoritarian regimes in the Middle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125718","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}