Director of counter-terrorism force was targeted with Pegasus spyware in Hungary?
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The Deputy Director-General of the Counter-Terrorism Centre (TEK) was also a target of the Pegasus spyware. It can be seen from a recent database that Zsolt Bodnár’s smartphone was monitored with the software of the Israeli NSO company. In addition to Bodnár, we can also find out the identities of other targets.
Counter-terrorism among the spyware targets
The company that develops Pegasus says of its service that the NSO aims to eradicate terrorism and crime. The program wants to help government agencies. This makes it particularly interesting that
Zsolt Bodnár, former Deputy Director-General of the Hungarian Counter-Terrorism Centre, was targeted by the software.
In 2018, TEK fired Bodnár. There was an investigation in this regard because TEK thought that Bodnár collected inside information. The Forbidden Stories network and the international advocacy organisation Amnesty International co-founded the database. This database contains phone numbers selected by NSO customers, writes blikk.hu.
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The Pegasus software may not have hacked the targeted phone. We can only know from the database who was a target. However, technical analysis can detect traces of Pegasus. With the Israeli NSO program, you can access all the data and secret messages of a phone. They can even turn on the device’s microphone or camera.