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Pegasus hacking software software#
This has fed suspicions that the Indian government was behind the hacks, seeking not only to listen in on phone conversations but to spy on all the information stored in the target phones, which the Pegasus software is capable of doing. So too were those belonging to independent journalists, Pakistani diplomats, representatives of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and India’s elections commissioner. In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s main rival, opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, was among those whose phone number appeared on the target list. Last week a consortium of international media published findings by Amnesty International and French investigative group Forbidden Stories that the software had been used to hack phones belonging to politicians, lawyers, human rights activists, journalists, and businesspeople around the world.
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Singh’s mobile phone number was one of 300 Indian numbers targeted by an Indian client of the Israel-based NSO group, which says it sells state-of-the-art spyware only to selected governments to help them combat organized crime. But in India, where the government stands accused of targeting its critics, they risk undermining democracy. Pegasus phone hacks have caused a stir worldwide.