Boris Johnson's office targeted by suspected Pegasus spyware, report says
Boris Johnson's Downing Street office was the target of multiple suspected malware attacks believed to be linked to the United Arab Emirates, a report said.
Number 10 was believed to have been targeted with Pegasus, a sophisticated hacking software that can turn a phone into a remote listening device, between 2020 and 2021, according to a report published Monday by Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto.
Over the same period there were also suspected attacks on the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office associated with Pegasus operators linked to the UAE, as well as India, Cyprus and Jordan, the report claimed.
Pegasus is the hacking software – or spyware – developed, marketed, and licensed to governments around the world by the Israeli firm NSO Group. It has the capability to infect phones running either iOS or Android operating systems.
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