{"id":226590,"date":"2025-12-06T00:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/intellexa-leaks-reveal-zero-days-and-ads-based-vector-for-predator-spyware-delivery"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:20:22","slug":"intellexa-leaks-reveal-zero-days-and-ads-based-vector-for-predator-spyware-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/intellexa-leaks-reveal-zero-days-and-ads-based-vector-for-predator-spyware-delivery","title":{"rendered":"Intellexa Leaks Reveal Zero-Days and Ads-Based Vector for Predator Spyware Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/intellexa-leaks-reveal-zero-days-and-ads-based-vector-for-predator-spyware-delivery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A human rights lawyer from Pakistan\u2019s Balochistan province received a suspicious link on WhatsApp from an unknown number, marking the first time a civil society member in the country was targeted by Intellexa\u2019s Predator spyware, Amnesty International <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2025\/12\/intellexa-spyware\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a report.<\/p>\n<p>The link, the non-profit organization said, is a \u201cPredator attack attempt based on the technical behaviour of the infection server, and on specific characteristics of the one-time infection link which were consistent with previously observed Predator 1-click links.\u201d Pakistan has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1959162\/pakistan-rubbishes-claims-of-israeli-spyware-being-used-in-country\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed<\/a> the allegations, stating \u201cthere is not an iota of truth in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The findings come from a new joint investigation published in collaboration with Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Greek news site Inside Story, and Swiss tech site Inside IT. It\u2019s based on documents and other materials leaked from the company, including internal documents, sales and marketing material, and training videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A human rights lawyer from Pakistan\u2019s Balochistan province received a suspicious link on WhatsApp from an unknown number, marking the first time a civil society member in the country was targeted by Intellexa\u2019s Predator spyware, Amnesty International said in a report. The link, the non-profit organization said, is a \u201cPredator attack attempt based on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226590","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=226590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}