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man rights workers , and even the King of Morocco .

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This spyware infects iPhone and Android devices ( until these disclosures many people had believed that iPhones were resistant to spyware , but 90 % of the victims had iPhones ).

The spyware gives attackers complete access to email , even encrypted email and messages , plain text messages , photographs , videos , recordings , locations , and notes stored on the phone . That ’ s news !

The even bigger news : the spyware allows the attacker to turn on the microphone and camera on the phone without any indication to the users that those functions are activated . in a room or every comment in a meeting . That information can stream in real-time to anywhere in the world or it can be stored and sent later .

Pegasus ’ creator , NSO Group , is located in Israel and because of the relationship with the USA and Israel , NSO has restricted Pegasus from hacking US phone numbers .

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That means the attacker can listen in on every conversation

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