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The cellphones of French President Emmanuel Macron and 15 members of the French government may have been among the potential targets in 2019 of spyware surveillance carried out by the Israeli group NSO, according to a news report on Tuesday.
The report of The world follows an announcement by the Paris prosecutor’s office that it is investigating the alleged widespread use of NSO’s Pegasus spyware to target journalists, human rights activists and politicians in several countries.
The world is part of the global media consortium Forbidden Stories which identified targets from a leaked list of more than 50,000 cell phone numbers. The research was carried out in cooperation with human rights group Amnesty International and shared with 16 news agencies which began publishing their findings on Sunday.
On the same day, Amnesty published a forensic analysis of the alleged targeting which showed that Amazon Web Services hosted the NSO infrastructure. In response, Amazon said it closed NSO accounts that were “confirmed to support the reported hacking activity.” Amazon said it violated its terms of service.
Another American company identified by Amnesty as hosting NSO servers was DigitalOcean. Contacted by the Associated Press, DigitalOcean has neither confirmed nor denied having identified or shut down such servers.
Moroccan security service
“All the infrastructure described in Amnesty’s report is no longer on DigitalOcean,” he said Tuesday without giving details in an emailed statement.
The world said the phone numbers of Macron and members of the government at the time were among the thousands allegedly selected by ONS clients for potential surveillance. In this case, the client was an unidentified Moroccan security service, according to The world.
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