A service will be made available to them to detect if the spy software has infected their mobile phones after more than 60 alleged cases of affected pro-independence leaders came to light.
The European Parliament will give its MEPs a service to detect whether the software spyware Pegasus infected their cell phones after two MEPs were allegedly found to be victims of this program in the latest wave of revelations about its use.
In an email sent to MEPs and to which Efe has had access, the European Parliament informs them that it will provide them with a service to check whether their mobile phones have been attacked by the spyware Pegasus, which can infect the device without the owner’s knowledge and give the attacker access to, among other things, documents or camera and microphone functions.
The service was launched at the request of the speaker of parliament, Roberta Metsola, and his secretary-general, Klaus Welle, after Metsola himself said on Tuesday it was “completely” confident that allegations of government espionage will be investigated. exhaustive” way.
Two MEPs from ERC, Diana Riba and Jordi Solé, as well as the environment of the MEP from JxCat Carles Puigdemontare among the more than 60 independence leaders allegedly spied on through this ‘spyware’, which can only be obtained by governments.
The verification of the device, adds Parliament’s post, will be carried out in the presence of its owner and can be carried out in the offices of the IT services of the European Parliament in Brussels or Strasbourg (France) or in the offices of the MEPs themselves.
The duration of the initial analysis depends on the amount of data on the mobile and will take at least 30 minutes, and depending on the result, “a detailed security analysis that takes more time” may be required.
This week also started his work de commission of inquiry into spy scandals with this softwarewhich arose after the first revelations about its use to spy on opponents, journalists and activists in the summer of 2021.
Source: EITB
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