Al Jazeera journalists hacked using Israeli firm’s spyware
Dozens of journalists at Al Jazeera Media Network were targeted this year by advanced spyware sold by an Israeli firm in an attack likely linked to the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a cybersecurity watchdog said.
Citizen Lab’s researchers at the University of Toronto published a report on Sunday detailing how NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware infected the mobile phones of 36 journalists, producers, anchors and executives at the media network which has its headquarters in Qatar.
The cybersecurity watchdog attributed the unprecedented attack to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
In confirming the hacking, Tamer Almisshal, an investigative journalist with Al Jazeera Arabic, said a probe was launched after death threats were received on a phone that was used to call ministries in the UAE for a story.
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Yeah, if I were a dying industry like news reporting I would be frightened of technology too, so I would post stories like this to make it seem like my communications weren't compromised. It isn't like there are governments that would use media for disinformation is it? Ahh who am I kidding, its probably all true, those criminals sue em.
Spying has been around as long as countries and states have existed and fought each other. The difference today is that all use modern technology –
some are better at it, than others; some invent it, some buy it, but all use it for their own gains to spy on enemies. As the saying goes 'know thy enemy".
Al Jazeera channel is😈, no doubt 👿. This channel support jihadis, poor channel. 👿👿👿👿👿👿
So it proves that Al jazeera is doing an amazing work.
CCP China is one of possible attacking every countries . CCP China is responsible for spreading Wuhan viruses to every country.
wait till Israel opens up the embassies in all those ME countries which are accepting Israel.
I think something wrong in this story, not real. These journalists don"t do any investigations, do not risk their lives to get sensitive information like other journalists do.They are not independent and working as propaganda reporters and commentators. What valuable on their phones could be? Weird story.
Really disgusting.
Post a link to the story they were working on that caused all of this. Must be a good one showing the murdering psychos scumbag ruling saudi and dubai.
A country whose beginning was a betrayal will defenitely end as one
Awesome..keep going Israel. Terrorist propaganda.
I just don't really see what they hoped to gain from this.
Since Aljazeera exposed the dirty truth about !srae| & americas war Against Iraq Aljazeera become fraud in the eyes of those dogs.
Why would anyone want access to journallist data if its going to be published anyways? sounds like BS to me
What about bringing clear facts about who hacked USA? It must not be Russia
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Lol phones hack means sue the phones company .. ur employees need more education…
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Israeli intelligence hackers have hacked Aljazeera's network and they are silly enough to blame others including Saudi Arabia? Foolishness, only the Israelis can do it in collaboration with others.
I found it amazing how AZ & All the Israel haters in the comments who didn't even watch the video for one second accuse Israel of committing a crime , while :
A) It is a private company . it's like blaming the USA for committing a crime because American hacked some news company . it doesn't make sense.
B) it is in the title for god sake , "using " , again "using " . Israel wasn't behind the attack . the hackers used Israeli software to make this attack . of course AJ will do anything to make Israel look bad so they will put the fact that this spyware was made in Israel in the title for clickbait from Israeli haters .
I'm sure all of those haters in the comments , will also accuse Iran for committing a crime . since Iranian group called "pay2key" has hacked many Israeli companies in the last month . but of course AJ won't report that . nor BBC nor CNN nor nothing . and they will say "zionist media" . to them zionist mean anything that don't say "death to israel" , which even AJ won't be that stupid to say (at least publicly) , because if Israel actually wanted to hack AJ , it will be done by now.
Omg..
Stop arguing each other! These are just conspiracy theories. No idea why aljazeera webcast this story.
Great. We are fade up of Aljazeera fake stories.
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The impotents use the enemies to kill their own brothers….
Forgetting they'll be swallowed by the same enemies….
Israel is simply a pet dog of US, to threat Middle East counties.
Creeps spy like little girls.
Saudi, UAE and turkey are the only ones in the region with israeli tech.
Lol
Bonjour et merci pour vos informations..
Vous êtes parmi les meilleurs et les journalistes les plus objectifs
Peut-être ces hackers vous pensent en possession d infos tres importantes d ou leur piratage…
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Al jazeera hates Israel so much that they blame them more for selling the spyware than the saudis and emiratis who actually use it.
support qatar from Pakistan now Saudi's in the hands of Israel
Aljazeera is only hated because it does a great job.
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Expose uae and Saudi truth!
Screw Israel. Aljazeera more support to you.
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HA! "Wonderful", this is not Julian Assange or Snowden, No CIA spies, cable leaks… Just an al Jazeera journalist who is targeted using Israeli spyware. The world is a sleep, totally unaware. Letting Israel control journalism, media and cause damages as much as they want. (Stupidity and carelessness serves evil). 👎
Judaism/Islam two face of the same coin
Don’t they have anything better to do???
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Israel is the BIGGEST threat to global peace and security by far, closely followed by the twin farts, Saudi & UAE.
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