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105. Jordan’s wave of spyware infections

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Recorded Future News
Published
Tue 06 Feb 2024
Episode Link
https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=69b4ebea-c488-11ee-9c29-2379d6aae2cf&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F8376%2Fclickhere

A report published last week by Access Now revealed that since 2019 nearly three dozen journalists, human rights officials and political activists in Jordan have had their phones infected with spyware. The documentation of the widespread use of NSO’s Pegasus spyware in the Kingdom isn’t just rattling civil society, but raising new questions about how to stop its proliferation.

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