Avast has been fending off Pegasus since 2016
It became known that VIPs, heads of state, journalists and opposition figures around the world were being eavesdropped using the Pegasus surveillance and espionage tool. A statement from Avast, Jakub Vavra, Mobile Threat Analyst “Pegasus is a remote access tool (RAT) with spyware properties. Its Android variants can extract data from popular messenger platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Viber, as well as email programs and browsers. The spyware is able to remotely monitor the user's screen via microphone and camera, take screenshots and record the inputs of the smartphone owners via keylogging. These functions make Pegasus ...