Pegasus: A Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy

Re:Pegasus: A Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy by DerekBickerton on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:20PM (#34420279)

I'm probably reading this HN thread from a Pegasus-infected iPhone right now, and I have no way of knowing! The only commercial solution to detect Pegasus I know of is iMazing's Pegasus detection tool[0] which borrows techniques from Amnesty International's Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT)[1] to detect Pegasus. Not sure how reliable it is though.

Anyway with something like Pegasus, all the forensic artifacts would be random and heavily mutated for each infected device, so it's not as easy as running a tool to detect its presence. It apparently does anti-forensics under the hood.

[0] https://imazing.com/blog/detecting-pegasus-spyware-with-imaz...

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-...

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Re:Pegasus: A Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy by raxxorraxor on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @10:48AM (#34428164)

It should be noted again that detecting this form of malware would be considerably easier on a system like an open Desktop PC and there would be many ways to Rome.

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