{"id":135767,"date":"2022-02-17T20:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T04:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/how-a-saudi-womans-iphone-revealed-hacking-around-the-world"},"modified":"2022-02-17T20:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T04:22:19","slug":"how-a-saudi-womans-iphone-revealed-hacking-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/how-a-saudi-womans-iphone-revealed-hacking-around-the-world","title":{"rendered":"How a Saudi woman\u2019s iPhone revealed hacking around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-a-saudi-womans-iphone-revealed-hacking-around-the-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) \u2014 A single activist helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the world\u2019s most sophisticated spyware companies now facing a cascade of legal action and scrutiny in Washington over damaging new allegations that its software was used to hack government officials and dissidents around the world.<\/p>\n<p>It all started with a software glitch on her iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>An unusual error in NSO\u2019s spyware allowed Saudi women\u2019s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul and privacy researchers to discover a trove of evidence suggesting the Israeli spyware maker had helped hack her iPhone, according to six people involved in the incident. A mysterious fake image file within her phone, mistakenly left behind by the spyware, tipped off security researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) \u2014 A single activist helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the world\u2019s most sophisticated spyware companies now facing a cascade of legal action and scrutiny in Washington over damaging new allegations that its software was used to hack government officials and dissidents around the world. It all started [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490,1496,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government","category-law","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135767","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\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}