Evidence of Pegasus use in phones, cyber expert tells SC
India Today
A cyber expert has filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court saying that there was evidence of government involvement in deploying the Pegasus malware against individuals.
A cyber expert on Monday told the Supreme Court that there was evidence of the government's role in deploying the Pegasus malware against individuals.
The cyber expert, who had earlier been deposed before the committee investigating the malware attack on public and private individuals, filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court on Monday. In the affidavit, the expert said that the malware had evolved since 2016.
The expert also pointed out in the affidavit that there are "strong indicators that point to the involvement of the State, its intelligence and law enforcement agencies in deploying the Pegasus.malware against individuals.
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Speaking to India Today, a source close to the inquiry commission said that so far, only two persons whose devices had been hacked had submitted the electronic equipment to the committee. "Another advertisement is being issued because very few people have responded", said the official who did not wish to be named.
One independent cyber security expert, who had been invited as an expert witness by one of the petitioners in the Pegasus case, has filed an affidavit in the Supreme court giving details of his analysis of the devices owned by two senior journalists, which had been put under Pegasus surveillance. According to the expert, the phones owned by both journalists indicated the presence of Pegasus malware.
He has also explained in detail how the Pegasus malware has evolved, and has been studied by reputed cyber-security organisations, forensic research forums and other open-source research laboratories.
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