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March 10, 2022

Prominent Western Saharan Activist in Morocco Targeted With Pegasus Spyware
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A prominent human rights activist from Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara
was targeted with Pegasus spyware in recent months. That's according to
a new investigation by Amnesty International, which discovered software
from the Israeli firm the NSO Group on two smartphones belonging to
Sahrawi human rights defender Aminatou Haidar. Pegasus uses a
"zero-click" exploit to secretly infect a mobile phone and harvest its
information.


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