- Russia appears to be targeting journalists with spyware known as Pegasus.
- Pegasus is a “zero-click” software, hacking phones by sending texts that don’t need to be opened.
- The software has targeted dozens of journalists, activists, and politicians in recent years.
Earlier this summer, Russian journalist Galina Timchenko received a troubling alert from Apple: Her iPhone might have been the target of a state-sponsored spyware attack.
Tech and privacy experts later revealed that Timchenko, leader of independent media outlet Meduza, had been targeted by the “zero-click” spyware Pegasus, The New York Times reported.
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