{"id":46528,"date":"2022-07-18T03:10:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T18:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/17\/dozens-of-thai-democracy-activists-targeted-with-pegasus-phone-spyware"},"modified":"2022-07-18T03:10:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T18:10:37","slug":"dozens-of-thai-democracy-activists-targeted-with-pegasus-phone-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46528","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Thai democracy activists targeted with Pegasus phone spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thai government suspected of orchestrating hacking campaign using Israeli surveillance technology<\/p>\n<p>The Thai government is suspected of using Israeli surveillance technology against more than two dozen dissidents and activists who supported democratic reforms, in what experts said was part of a wide-ranging campaign to try to shut down criticism using one of the most advanced spying tools in the world.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenlab.ca\/2022\/07\/geckospy-pegasus-spyware-used-against-thailands-pro-democracy-movement\/\">report by researchers at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto<\/a> paints a devastating picture of the pervasive use of NSO Group\u2019s Pegasus spyware in 2020 and 2021 against pro-democracy protesters, including many who have repeatedly faced arrest, harassment and physical attacks by Thai authorities. The Citizen Lab\u2019s forensic analysis, which was peer-reviewed by experts at Amnesty International\u2019s security lab, also raises questions about statements made by Thai government officials, who last year said reports of state-sponsored attacks were \u201cuntrue\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/17\/dozens-of-thai-democracy-activists-targeted-with-pegasus-phone-spyware\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai government suspected of orchestrating hacking campaign using Israeli surveillance technologyThe Thai government is suspected of using Israeli surveillance technology against more than two dozen dissidents and activists who supported democratic ref&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,474,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-surveillance","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46529,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46528\/revisions\/46529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}