{"id":131752,"date":"2021-12-04T01:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T09:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/pegasus-maker-probes-reports-its-spyware-targeted-us-diplomats"},"modified":"2021-12-04T01:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T09:22:40","slug":"pegasus-maker-probes-reports-its-spyware-targeted-us-diplomats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/pegasus-maker-probes-reports-its-spyware-targeted-us-diplomats","title":{"rendered":"Pegasus maker probes reports its spyware targeted US diplomats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pegasus-maker-probes-reports-its-spyware-targeted-us-diplomats2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Israeli spyware maker in the Pegasus surveillance scandal said Friday it was investigating reports the firm\u2019s technology was used to target iPhones of some US diplomats in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has begun alerting people whose phones were hacked by NSO\u2019s spyware, which essentially turns handsets into pocket spying devices and sparked controversy this year after reportedly being used on activists, journalists and politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn top of the independent investigation, NSO will cooperate with any relevant government authority and present the full information we will have,\u201d the firm said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli spyware maker in the Pegasus surveillance scandal said Friday it was investigating reports the firm\u2019s technology was used to target iPhones of some US diplomats in Africa. Apple has begun alerting people whose phones were hacked by NSO\u2019s spyware, which essentially turns handsets into pocket spying devices and sparked controversy this year after [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490,1512,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government","category-mobile-phones","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131752","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}