News
Europe and Central Asia
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Hungarian journalism non-profit Direkt36 today published a major investigation into the use of NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus spyware in Hungary, revealing that the phones of more than 300 Hungarian nationals were identified as possible targets for infection. Experts from Amnesty International were...
July 20, 2021
News
New evidence uncovered by Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories has revealed that Rwandan authorities used NSO Group’s spyware to potentially target more than 3,500 activists, journalists and politicians. It was also used to infect the phone of Carine Kanimba, Paul Rusesabagina’s daughter, of...
July 19, 2021
Press Release
Technology and Human Rights
In response to false allegations on social media and inaccurate media stories in relation to the Pegasus Project, Amnesty International issued the following statement: “Amnesty International categorically stands by the findings of the Pegasus Project, and that the data is irrefutably linked...
July 22, 2021
Press Release
Human Rights Defenders and Activists
New evidence uncovered by Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories has revealed a massive wave of attacks by cyber surveillance company NSO Group’s customers on iPhones, potentially affecting thousands of Apple users worldwide. Deputy Director of Amnesty Tech Danna Ingleton said: “Apple...
July 19, 2021
Research
Business and Human Rights
NSO Group claims that its Pegasus spyware is only used to “investigate terrorism and crime” and “leaves no traces whatsoever”. This Forensic Methodology Report shows that neither of these statements are true. It accompanies the release of the Pegasus Project, a collaborative investigation that...
July 18, 2021
Research
This document is an appendix to the research report “Forensic Methodology Report: How to catch NSO Group’s Pegasus”, published as part of the Pegasus Project. It contains forensic analysis conducted by Amnesty Tech’s Security Lab of the mobile devices of individuals targeted with NSO Group’s...
August 6, 2021
News
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Spokespeople available Responding to the news that the European Parliament’s Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism has been awarded to the Forbidden Stories Consortium, of which Amnesty International was the technical partner, for the Pegasus Project which exposed the...
October 14, 2021
Research
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
Business and Human Rights
This document is a joint technical report by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and Amnesty International’s Security Lab reviewing Front Line Defenders’ technical research. In October 2021, the human rights non-governmental organization (NGO) Front Line Defenders (FLD) began collecting data on...
November 8, 2021
News
Kazakhstan
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Amnesty International’s Security Lab has confirmed that at least four Kazakhstani civil society activists have had their mobile devices infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. A forensic analysis shows that all four activists had been targeted and their...
December 9, 2021
News
Europe and Central Asia
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Confirming that Amnesty International has independently confirmed that Pegasus spyware was used to hack Polish senator, Krzysztof Brejza, when he was running the opposition’s 2019 parliamentary election campaign, Amnesty International Poland’s Director Anna Błaszczak, said: “These...
January 7, 2022
News
Americas
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
A joint investigation by Access Now and the Citizen Lab has identified the use of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware against journalists and members of civil society organizations in El Salvador on a massive scale. Technical experts from the Amnesty International Security Lab have peer-reviewed...
January 13, 2022
News
Bahrain
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
A new investigation has revealed how NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus spyware was used to infect the devices of three activists in Bahrain, demonstrating yet again the grave threat which Pegasus poses to critics of repressive governments. Ali Abdulemam from digital rights organization Red Line 4 Gulf,...
February 18, 2022