After causing international controversy around the world, the spy app Pegasus begins to appear in the news from its place of origin, Israel, with suspicions of being used to monitor and spy on personalities in the country.
The information was reported by the newspaper Calcalist, which claims that the Pegasus was used to spy without judicial authorization Avner Nenyahu, son of former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
In addition, the app would also have been used to spy on those involved in the “4,000 case”, a scandal resulting from accusations that the former prime minister of Israel tried to buy favorable coverage of his term in the Walla news agency with favors.
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After the publication of the report in the Israeli newspaper Calcalist, the country’s Minister of Public Security, Omer Bar-Lev, went public to ask for the creation of a government investigation commission into the unauthorized use of virtual espionage tools, while the first The nation’s current minister, Naftali Bennett, said the government will soon share an official response on the incident.
Finally, former Prime Minister Netanyahu called for the creation of an “independent investigation commission” to deal with the case.
The controversies with the Pegasus spy app
Problems in Israel come to light shortly after the US Department of Justice began conducting investigations into the NSO Group and its flagship product, the spy app Pegasus. The investigation by the agency analyzes the fact that some of the users of the service offered by the Israeli company have hacked into targets’ phones to illegally spy on them.
Worldwide, the Pegasus app, according to data revealed by an international press consortium in July 2021, has already helped governments and other institutions gain access to and spy on the phones of at least 180 journalists, 600 politicians, 85 human rights activists and 65 directors. companies. The program, for the most part, was deployed on Apple devices, starting from a bug fixed by the company last year.
