What is Pegasus spyware? How it attack users devices?
Hello, today e-news is discussing about the spyware named as Pegasus.
We all know that now a day's Pegasus spyware is attacking the mobile phones of the users. When we open the newspaper's and social media's we are hearing bad news about the latest spyware named as Pegasus. People are hearing about the the virus attack but are not studying in detail about this spyware. In order to generate some awareness and precautions about this virus, e-news is writing this article for the readers.
First of all, What is Pegasus spyware? Pegasus is a spyware that is developed by Israel firm named NSO Group in the year 2016. NSO Group is also known as Q Cyber Technologies. It was first used in the year 2018. In August 2020, NSO Group sold the spyware to United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Pegasus spyware is a spyware that can be easily installed in mobile phone without the permission or knowledge of the user. This spyware can be easily installed in the Apple IOS and Android devices.
The spyware can monitor the users emails, messages, web searches, location, camera, microphone etc. in their devices.
Precautions for protecting the device from malware attack
1. Check whether the phone runs slower than usual.
2. Check whether their is any performance issue in the phone than usual.
3. Check whether their is any crash in application while using it.
Precautions for protecting the device from Pegasus attack
MVT(Mobile Verification Toolkit) is a tool that help to identify Pegasus spyware. This tool help the users to identify whether the Pegasus spyware is installed in the mobile phones.
The Pegasus spyware may be installed in the mobile devices through WhatsApp calls, malicious links etc. So, be aware of it.
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