The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a non-profit that aims to protect press freedom, on Wednesday issued a 바카라safety advisory바카라 to journalists to guard their phones against snooping.
The CPJ advisory comes less than a week after WhatsApp revealed that Israeli spyware, Pegasus, was used to spy on activists and journalists, many of whom confirmed the same to media outlets over the next few days.
Titled 바카라CPJ Safety Advisory: Journalist targets of Pegasus spyware바카라, the piece says that if a journalist believes they have reason enough to feel targeted, they should:
바카라Stop using the device immediately.
Put the device somewhere that does not compromise you or your surroundings.
Log out of all accounts and unlink them from the device.
From a different device, change all your account passwords.
Seek expert digital security advice. If you are a freelance journalist or do not have access to tech support, contact the Access Now Helpline.바카라
For journalists who have been targeted by 바카라a sophisticated adversary such as a government바카라, CPJ says they should switch to changing burner phones every few months or contact an expert on digital security for help. This is in case of a 바카라zero-day바카라 attack, a vulnerability which has just been discovered. In this case, the Pegasus attack takes the form of WhatsApp calls.
The attack can also come in the form of urgent messages asking a journalist to click on a link, called 바카라spear-phishing바카라 attacks. The sender could be pushing a sense of urgency by sending a link with work-related information or those pertaining to finances. These could be from unknown numbers or fraudulent ones and are intended to look important.
On how to stay safe and not fall prey to the hack, CPJ has put out a 바카라things-to-do바카라 list.
CPJ바카라s advisory comes in the wake of targeting of journalists by using NSO바카라s spyware, Pegasus, which was detected in 45 countries in 2018 by Citizen Lab, a research laboratory whose interests include network surveillance. In May 2019, a vulnerability in WhatsApp allowed for the Israeli spyware software to infect phones of journalists and activists. The NSO group, creators of the malware, have refused to comment on individual cases.
The Pegasus user manual introduces the spyware as a 바카라world-leading cyber intelligence solution that enables law enforcement and intelligence agencies to remotely and covertly extract valuable intelligence from virtually any mobile device.바카라 It says that it was developed by senior intelligence officials 바카라to provide governments with a way to address the new communications interception challenges in today's highly dynamic cyber battlefield.바카라
They mention that smartphones of any operating system can be subject to the spyware, mentioning that the 바카라solution is able to penetrate the market's most popular smartphones based on BlackBerry, Android, iOS and Symbian operating systems.바카라
Once it's in the phone, it can track a person바카라s location, files, do real-time monitoring, screen grabbing and also intercept calls and messages while also accessing the microphone and the phone바카라s camera. It compresses all this data and sends it to the agency that deployed it.
