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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Malak Abu Oraibi could tell something was wrong with his phone: It was frequently hot, slower than usual and the battery would drain at alarming speeds. He had a passing thought that maybe something was wrong – perhaps he had been hacked – but continued on as usual. What Abu Oraibi, a Jordanian human rights lawyer, could never have imagined was that he had been hacked with one of the most advanced and expensive spywares in the world: Pegasus. Pegasus is a software developed by the private Israeli company NSO Group. It gives hackers access to an entire phone’s contents, calls and allows for rem…