Pegasus, the software that Israel-based spyware company NSO Group sells to the states of the world, and which enables the tracking of royal families, wealthy businessmen, journalists and non-governmental volunteers around the world, was detected this time in Bahrain.
Covid-19 of spyware Pegasus software nightmare continues. Worldwide last year 189 journalists, more than 600 statesmen, 64 senior business people and this software detected on the phones of hundreds of activists; It has become an important tool used by states or governments for information spoofing operations.
Pegasus, which the Israeli NSO Group, the developer of the software, did not sell to countries such as the USA on good terms with Israel, is now one of the company’s best-known customers, located in the Persian Gulf, the most critical region of the Middle East. BahrainIt was detected in .
Pegasus’ new target this time is a lawyer, a journalist and a mental health expert:
Among the dozens of organizations working for the emergence of the software Amnesty Internationalexplained that the common point of the three people in question is that they are “activists”. As it is known, Pegasus is used by the government or states to facilitate the follow-up of “people who have different views and act accordingly”.
Dissent was forbidden in Bahrain:
According to Amnesty, opposition organizations and groups in the country were outlawed. Activists, who have the power to raise awareness and direct the society on various issues with their discourse and actions towards the current government and its decisions, become targets of those governments in countries like Bahrain where there are censoring governments. People who organize actions that defend the economy, unemployment, femicide, individual fundamental rights and freedoms and raise awareness of the public in this direction, so to speak, with these software. “they’re being scammed”.
What is Pegasus software, who is on the watch list for this software? The answers are in our video below:
Spyware like Pegasus violates human rights:
The first of the names that appeared to be followed with Pegasus software Lawyer Mohamed al-Tajer. He is fighting for the families of the two victims who were tortured to death by the security forces of the current repressive government in 2011.
Another name is Bahrain’s Ministry of Health, who claimed with documents that he was a partner in the crime of drug smuggling. Mental Health Specialist Sharifa Swar. Swar, who detected the first clues about spyware on his phone in June 2021, then left his country of Bahrain and moved to England and applied for asylum.
plugged into the software’s network and third party journalist His name is not disclosed in accordance with the request for confidentiality. It is known that the journalist in question reported on the events that took place in the country in 2011 and their reflections on the internet.
It is possible to say that those who are followed by Pegasus software in societies under the control of oppressive governments have one more thing in common. Most of these people take on roles that will raise awareness and mobilize the society.