The story so far
In a series of startling revelations by The Wire, Pegasus, the Israeli spyware was found to have been used to potentially target hundreds of cell phone devices in India.
The leaked database was found by Forbidden Stories, a Paris based organization and Amnesty International, and it was shared with several news agencies across the world including The Wire. The database contains a list of thousands of potential targets of Pegasus from around the world. The Security Lab at Amnesty International provided the forensic analysis and technical support for the project.
The consortium has confirmed that there were clear signs of targeting by Pegasus in 10 Indian numbers and on 27 additional phones around the world. It must be noted that the consortium has not claimed or asserted that all the numbers in the leaked database have had infiltration attempts or were spied upon using the Pegasus software.
This is not the first time that Pegasus has been linked with the attack on journalists and human rights activists in India. The issue had cropped up once before in 2019 as well. On May 17, 2019, CERT.in issued a Vulnerability Note about a “Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in WhatsApp.” The note said that an attacker could exploit the said vulnerability to
— source sflc.in | 22 Jul 2021