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No one is safe from Pegasus: spyware detected on ordinary people’s phones (cybernews.com)
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Self-scans reveal that Pegasus, an invasive and powerful spyware that can secretly control phones and track owners, might be more widespread than previously thought. It was discovered on the phones of everyday phone users.

From wikiHow: How to Check Your Smartphone for Pegasus Spyware

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[-] sepi@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

There could be spyware on your phone! Install this shady app to find out if you have the spyware or not!

I wonder if the shady app in the link is the spyware. This would be a brilliant way of getting on to people's phones.

[-] vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

My thoughts exactly… If there’s a FOSS tool to check, then we’d be talking.

[-] solo@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I see what you mean and on top of that you would need to pay for it.

That's why I added in the description a link with instructions on the free tool designed by Amnesty International's Security Lab.

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

What do you mean??? WikiHow is a collection of only the most reliable tutorials and information. Now be good and install the shady app.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I'll just assume that my GrapheneOS install is safe, the checker probably wouldn't work anyway...

[-] eleitl@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

I haven't checked, does GrapheneOS do reproducible/deterministic builds so that you could verify that the published release matches your image? The boot attestation should not be able to be circumvented, if you trust Google hardware to do what it says on the tin.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago
[-] eleitl@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks, interesting. I have used boot attestation but not yet Auditor. Hope to have some quality time reading up on the documentation in the coming three weeks.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

It worked with antivirus scanning - more than half of Windows PCs have spyware on them their users consciously installed so that it would scan and report what they run.

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

All windows PCs have spyware on them by definition

[-] vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

Amnesty International provides a FOSS tool to check your mobile backups for traces of the Pegasus Spyware. I’d trust that over a sketchy proprietary app. Link: https://docs.mvt.re.

[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 0 points 4 months ago

Damn, I oughtta give my phone a check

[-] embed_me@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

Let's say there are signs of it being infected. What can you do next?

[-] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Buy/replace your phone

[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

How do you keep that one from reinfecting?

[-] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can try factory reset, but more than likely they control the boot process, so you can't get rid of the malware no matter what you do.

You might be able to trade it in with your manufacturer. They might be interested in having an infected phone to study.

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