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| Pegasus Spyware Explain |
Pegasus Spyware Information
| SL. | Developer(s) | Customer | Supported OS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | NSO Group (private ltd.) |
Govement agencies |
IOS and Android |
Pegasus is spyware developed by the Israeli surveillance company. The company name "NSO Group" developed Pegasus and that spyware enables the remote surveillance of smartphones. NSO Group develops technology for government agencies to investigate terrorism and crime. Pegasus Spyware one of them. Current Pegasus spyware software is able to exploit all recent android and iOS versions operating systems.
According to the international media reports (The Washington Post), NSO Group handover to the media 50,000 phone numbers worldwide on list linked to Israeli spyware Pegasus. Around 45 countries surveillances by Pegasus Spyware where India, Bangladesh, Saudi Arab and other 42 countries included.
Hello everyone, today's topic is very important and sensitive for all smartphone users. This is an emergency situation if you already got affected with pegasus. Problem is that there is no way to remove this virus from you phone. Because this is a kernel base spyware virus. Only one way to prevent it, if you affected with this virus then discard you smartphone.
Also discard smartphone is not prevent for this virus, you need to change old account username, password such icloud, email username, password etc. Now you may guess how much dangerous is it?
How can my phone get infected?
Pegasus or all such surveillance software is transmitted to your phone using third party websites, web links, emails and apps. Wait here, not only that, this kind of spyware virus can infect your phone through SMS, miss calls and also from a single video calls. This even more higher chance to get infected through encrypted messaging apps like whatsapp and telegram. This spyware can infected:
- Through 3rd party website, emails, applications
- Can be infected by Whatsapp and Telegram video and audio calls
- Can be infected by SMS (blank sms, encrypted SMS)
- Can be transmitted by encrypted messaging apps (whatsapp, telegram etc)
Remember, this pegasus spyware has the ability to exploit IOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Symbian and some others smartphone OS.
What could pegasus do on your phone?
According to cyber security researchers, Pegasus spyware can stealing passwords, contacts, text messages, and accessing the phone's camera, microphone, and GPS, and other information with voice or video calls made through Whatsapp, telegram are well within its capabilities. Remotely and covertly it can collect information.
- Pegasus spyware stealing your password, contacts, text messages
- Pegasus can unlimited access to your mobile data remotely.
- Intercept Calls, transparently monitor your real time voice calls
- Monitor a multitude of apps including skype, whatsapp, messenger, sms etc..
- Track your accurate position using GPS
- Monitor your microphone, webcam and much more..
Problem is that, this spyware impossible to detect. If it's uninstalled later, it doesn't leave any traces and there is no way to tell whether the smartphone was affected.
How do I know if my phone is infected?
I already told this spyware impossible to detect. This spyware don't leave any logs and there is not way to detect this spyware has been infected to your phone or not.
This virus does not show any lags or visible signs when it has been infected by pegasus spyware. Because this is a kernel base spyware virus. But there is uncertainty as to whether it allows them to manipulate other application on the smartphone.
But one thing you can do, turn off your phone for 30 minutes, then check your smartphone battery temperature. If you feel battery temperature is minor hot, then their might be infected by pegasus spyware. Because usually when you turn off your smartphone, all software applications will shut down. However, the spyware virus does not stop and continue running in the background of the smartphones.
What to do if my phone is infected?
- This virus impossible to remove from smartphone.
- Factory data reset doesn't get rid of the Pegasus spyware.
- You might discard your smarphone if it infected.
- Once you have replaced your phone, ensure that all the application that you install are up to date and have the latest version.
- In order to ensure that your all online accounts are safe, should also change the passwords of all the cloud base applications and services that you are using on the old infected phone.
How can you save yourself from this pegasus spyware?
- Avoid downloading suspicious files, software's, apps
- Avoid clicking on unknown links
- Never open links or download files from unknown sources
- Don't try to root your android phones.
- Always install software and updates patches from app-store, play-store
- Turn off WiFi, Bluetooth and location services when not in use
- Encrypt your sensitive data located on your storage and phones
- Do not blindly approve app/application permissions
- Always up-to-date IOS and Android versions.
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