A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Found 7 Pegasus Infections

Pertinent and timely, after recently watching a great documentary on HBO Max about Pegasus, Surveilled by Ronan Farrow.

Commercial spyware, touted as a tool used by governments to fight terrorism, is now appearing on the phones of activists, journalists, politicians, and even ordinary people. In Surveilled, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow illuminates a clandestine industry that is reshaping the concepts of privacy and power, revealing the ethical dilemmas that both governments and citizens must navigate in the brave new world of cyberespionage.

HBO Documentary Films presents Surveilled. Producers and directors, Matthew O’Neill and Perri Peltz; producers, Ronan Farrow, Beth Morrissey, and Unjin Lee; editor, David Meneses; composer, Mac Quayle; writers, Ronan Farrow, Matthew O’Neill, and Perri Peltz. For HBO: executive producers, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, and Sara Rodriguez.

[1] https://www.hbo.com/movies/surveilled