A Cybersecurity Expert Explains What Pegasus Is , And How The Spyware Invades Phones And What It Does When It Gets In
Bhanukiran Gurijala, West Virginia University
End-to-end encryption is technology that scrambles messages on your phone and unscrambles them only on the recipients’ phones, which means anyone who intercepts the messages in between can’t read them. Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo are among the companies whose apps and services use end-to-end encryption.
This kind of encryption is good for protecting your privacy, but governments don’t like it because it makes it difficult for them to spy on people, whether tracking criminals and terrorists or, as some governments have been known to do, snooping on dissidents, protesters and journalists. Enter an Israeli technology firm, NSO Group.
The company’s flagship product is Pegasus, spyware that can stealthily enter a smart...