Morocco Accused of Targeting 200+ Spanish Phones in Alleged Pegasus Spyware Attack

4 May 2022 – byPrince@Bladi · 1 min read

Morocco would be the author of espionage using Pegasus on more than 200 Spanish mobile phones in 2019, according to a report by the network of journalists Forbidden Stories published on Tuesday by the British newspaper The Guardian.

"The selections of more than 200 targeted phone numbers would have been made by Morocco in 2019, in a database comprising more than 50,000 numbers of individuals...," the report said, stressing that there is no indication that the hacking was carried out with Pegasus, a Israeli spyware that allows access to calls, messages, photos and even emails from a phone.

To read: Spanish PM and Defense Minister’s Phones Hacked with Pegasus Spyware, Morocco Suspected

The Spanish government has announced that the mobile phones of Pedro Sanchez and Defense Minister Margarita Robles were hacked using Pegasus, in May 2021 for the former and June of the same year for the latter. A period that coincides with the massive influx of Moroccan migrants into Ceuta, reports Antena3, specifying that the King’s Prosecutor has already filed a complaint against X before the National Court.

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