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Finland says it found NSO's Pegasus spyware on diplomats' phones
By Catalin Cimpanu
Excerpt
The Finnish government said today that the telephones of some of its foreign diplomats were infected last year with Pegasus, a spyware strain developed by controversial Israeli surveillance vendor NSO Group.
Finland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the hacks were discovered in the autumn and winter of 2021–2022 and that the espionage campaign is no longer active.
Officials said that both Android and iPhone phones were infected but that the devices only stored information classified at "level 4," which they said was their lowest level of classified information.
"However, it is worth noting that even if information is not directly classified…
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