What is Pegasus?
Is Pegasus a hacking software
or spyware? It is pipped as the best version of both worlds that was
developed, marketed, and licensed to governments around the world by the
Israeli company NSO Group. This is because of the intrusive nature it
possesses where it can infect and silent surveillance on billions of
phones running either iOS or Android operating systems.
Pegasus was first discovered in 2016 in a group of mobile devices which were infected via a spear phishing campaign which tricked users into clicking on malicious links which would install the spying software. However, recent versions of the spyware are much more sophisticated and require zero interaction from the victim for delivery and execution.
How it works?
The
spyware executes via a zero-click exploit. This means that a victim
does not need to interact with the initial delivery vector of the
spyware for the malicious code to be executed. The victim receives a
message on SMS, WhatsApp, iMessage or any other messaging application.
As soon as the message is received the spyware is executed and all
traces of the message are deleted. This implies that the user’s device
will be infected with the spyware, without the user being aware of even
receiving any suspicious message. more
