Several technical analyzes show that the apparatus of the former presidential candidate of 2022 was infected by Pegasus in early September 2019, when he had reconverted into business.
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This is a new name to add to the list of French victims of Spy Pegasus software. One of Arnaud Montebourg’s phones, presidential candidate until recently, includes traces of the powerful software marketed by NSO Group. According to several concordant analyzes, his phone has been infected with Pegasus in the first days of September 2019.
At this date, Arnaud Montebourg is withdrawn from the policy, which he left at the end of 2014 to convert into business. He took the head of the Made in France teams, a company that has invested in a dozen other companies , in sectors as diverse as the online bank, the development of a Car on rail or honey production.
Arnaud Montebourg’s interest is awake, in July, by the “Pegasus project” publications, in which Le Monde and sixteen partner drafting, coordinated by Forbidden Stories and benefiting from the technical support of Amnesty International , demonstrated the use of the software to spy on human rights activists, political opponents or journalists. It has been several months since the former socialist minister complains of dysfunctioning his phone. Brutally interrupted calls, for example, that even a change of smartphone can not adjust.
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become a spyware to be the cause of these problems? Arnaud Montebourg’s computer scientist performs an analysis using Tool posted by the Security Lab of Amnesty International . It corroborates suspicions and highlights traces of Pegasus infection. After a confirmation of this review by Amnesty International, Arnaud Montebourg is heard as a victim in January by the judicial police, at the premises of the National Agency for the Safety of Information Systems (ANSSI), following a complaint. that he filed at the end of December. According to our information, the analyzes carried out in the judicial framework have confirmed an infection by Pegasus.
Elements Note again to Morocco
Technical analyzes also highlight elements accrediting the involvement of Morocco in this espionage. Indeed, at the time, Pegasus used a fault in the iPhone messaging system as an entrance door to enter these phones. To use this flaw, Pegasus had to send a message, invisible to his victim. And to do this, it had to create an account in the Apple messaging system: an account that is identified by an e-mail address, which can be found on infected phones, and which is the same for All the victims of one and the same customer of Pegasus.
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