Knitted News07.02.22 07:14 6 Adar A. Tishpev
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Pegasus storm widens: Police have used NSO spyware to hack into the phones of a number of elected officials, senior officials in the economy and government ministries and people close to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Calcalist reported this morning (Monday). It was also said that the surveillance program was also used against office managers, witnesses in the 4,000 cases and Bezeq and Netanyahu’s advisers, along with key activists in various protests, including the disabled and Ethiopian protests.
According to the report, the police used the “Pegasus” program without a court order and used it to break into the phones of Avner Netanyahu, Netanyahu’s advisers Topaz Lock and Yonatan Orich, Iris Alovich and the directors of the Ministries of Finance, Justice, and Transportation – Keren Turner, Shai BaVad And my mother Palmor.
It was also reported that the use of the software was also suspended against mayors, journalists in Walla, leaders of the disabled and Ethiopian protests, businessman Rami Levy and IAI chairman Yair Katz. It was also stated that In Judea and Samaria. “
Last week, the police admitted for the first time that there were anomalies in the use of spyware, which according to sources in the system all occurred during Roni Alshikh’s tenure as police commissioner. .
According to Homeland Security Minister Amar Bar-Lev, “What turned out was that there were applications that were not approved for use – and they were open. That is, one researcher, two, ten, could enter these applications that were open, and were not allowed to use them, and see what material there is. “.
He said Pegasus’ system was supposed to be disabled for some of the capabilities so that police investigators could not use them. This is the ability to search correspondence, view photos and read any other material accumulated on the phone before a court order is issued.
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