www . AmericanSecurityToday . com August 2021 - Edition 57
Cell phones infected with spyware show give attackers complete access to email , even encrypted email and messages , plain text messages , photographs , videos , recordings , locations , and notes stored on the phone .
I Spy With My Little … Phone
Guest OpEd by Chris Risley , CEO at Bastille Networks
The recent revelations surrounding the Pegasus Spyware and its ability to compromise mobile phones should have all government agencies and commercial enterprises on alert .
Pegasus is even reported to have compromised the phone of President Macron of France .
This means that an attacker could have listened in on every high-level military meeting , every security briefing and every confidential diplomatic meeting that the President attended .
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