Pegasus Issue

Introduction

Pegasus is a dangerous software that has been accused of being used to covertly monitor and spy on a number of public figures in India, including opposition leaders and journalists. Pegasus was developed by NSO, a spyware corporation that can infect and harvest data from any phone.

• Pegasus infections can be spread using so-called “zero-click” attacks, which require no engagement from the phone’s owner to be successful. 
• These will tend to make use of “Zeroday” vulnerabilities, which are faults or problems in an operating system that the phone’s developer is unaware of and hence has not been able to repair.