Al Jazeera Journalists ‘Hacked via NSO Group Spyware’

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Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists were allegedly hacked with the help of spyware developed by Israeli firm NSO Group, cyber-security researchers say.

Details of the alleged hack targeting 36 members of staff, including TV anchors and executives, have been published in a report by Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. It says a vulnerability in iPhone operating system software was used. NSO Group has denied the allegation, saying it “lacks any evidence".Citizen Lab researchers say they concluded with “medium confidence” that two attackers who had spied on the phones of Al Jazeera journalists were doing so on behalf of the Saudi Arabian and UAE governments. “The phones were compromised using an exploit chain that we call Kismet,” the researchers write.

Al Jazeera journalists ‘hacked via NSO Group spyware’

NSO Group says a report that its software was used to target journalists “lacks evidence”.

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