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Mainstream, VOL LIX No 33, New Delhi, July 31, 2021

Pegasus — obfuscating the obvious | Upal Chakraborty

Friday 30 July 2021, by Upal Chakraborty

by Upal Chakraborty *

The ’Pegasus’ spyware was conceived as a Trojan horse with soldiers sitting stealthily inside, ready to strike at the earliest opportunity. Conceived, developed and marketed by the NSO Group of Israel, it has, in reality, no horses or soldiers but is a piece of code sitting inside one’s phone