UN investigators: Saudis may have broken into Amazon founder's phone with Israeli software
Experts from the organization determined that the detainee may have been involved in the cyber attack that infiltrated Jeff Bezos's phone. They called for an immediate investigation into the burglary, which Riyadh denies
UN investigators: Saudis may have broken into Amazon founder's phone with Israeli software
Photo: Reuters, Edit: Amit SimchaUnited Nations investigators said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia may have used Israeli spyware spyware to hack Amazon cellphone owner Jeff Bezos. Investigators also said that heir Mohammed bin Salman may have been involved in the program himself.
Special investigators Agnes Klemard and David Kay said the information they had indicated a "possible involvement" of the prince in the same cyber attack that was suspected in 2018. Riyadh called these claims "absurd."
Cyber experts hired by Bezos, the world's richest man who also owns the Washington Post, have concluded that the phone was hacked through a file sent in a Wetsap message from an account that apparently belonged to the heir. According to the source, the device leaked huge amounts of information about a month later. The Washington Post worked for Saudi journalist Jamal Hashokji before he was assassinated at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul a few months later.
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Clemard, the United Nations Special Investigator for Trial Without Exercise, and Kay, a special freedom of speech investigator, said the suspicion of Saudi involvement "requires an immediate investigation by the United States and other relevant authorities." The Saudi burglary was first published tonight by the Guardian.
The British newspaper said that the "shocking reveal" that Saudi Arabia's future queen was personally involved in activities against Amazon founder would shock investors, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. The exposure may undermine the heiress's efforts to attract more Western investors to the Sunni kingdom as part of her economic policy change, although he did so at the same time as his critics and rivals suppressed it.
As far as the kingdom is concerned, the publicity may raise difficult questions about how the US tabloid obtained The National Enquirer intimate details of Bezos' personal life - including messages - nine months later. In addition, there may be a renewed focus on the actions of the Crown Prince and his men in the months preceding the murder of Hashokji.
Saudi Arabia has previously denied it broke into Bezos's phone, and insists that Hashokji's assassination was a "rogue operation" and not a curfew instruction. Last month, a court in the kingdom convicted eight people involved in murder after a covert trial. Five of those involved were sentenced to death, while three others were sentenced to 24 years in prison. Human rights organizations have described the trial as farce.
The NSO said they were "shocked and appalled" by the report of the hack to Bezos's phone. "If this story is true, it deserves a full investigation of all the providers of these services to ensure their systems were not used to this exploit. Just as we said when these stories began to float a few months ago, we can say unequivocally that our technology is not being used In this case".
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The company added that "this exploitation of surveillance systems is compromising the cyber intelligence community and tarnishes our ability to use legitimate tools to fight serious crime and terrorism. Offensive. "
NSOs also said that such stories "emphasize the need" for implementing a stringent UN human rights policy, and that they are happy to work with the UN, Bezos, or any other body that tries to fully understand these issues, to define The guidelines for ensuring human rights protection in the sale and use and surveillance equipment. "
