Telegram founder says he was targeted with surveillance since 2018

 Pegasus revelations: Telegram founder says he was targeted with surveillance since 2018

Pegasus revelations: Telegram's founder Pavel Durov asserted that numerous governments are using surveillance tools to hack any iOS and Android phone, and "there isn't any because of protect your device from it."

Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov has revealed that he was conscious of the very fact that he was on the list of people targeted with surveillance which one among his phone numbers was on the list of potential targets for NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. The Israeli cybersecurity company has denied that Durov was a target or that anyone whose number was a part of the leaked database was a target for Pegasus.

Earlier in the week , a series of reports across the planet have shown how NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware was wont to target journalists, activists, dissidents, ministers, constitutional authorities, across the world , including in India. Amnesty International also analysed some phones belonging to potential targets and located evidence that a lot of of the devices were infected by Pegasus.

Meanwhile, Durov has written an extended note on his personal Telegram channel claiming he knew since 2018 that one among his phone numbers was on the list.

“Since a minimum of 2018, I even have been aware that during a ll|one amongst|one in every of"> one among my phone numbers was included in a list of potential targets of such surveillance tools (although a source from the NSO Group denies it),” he wrote, adding that this since he was living in Russia he had gotten conversant in assuming that his phones were compromised.

Durov also asserted that numerous governments are using surveillance tools to hack any iOS and Android phone, and “there isn't any because of protect your device from it.”