{"id":3880,"date":"2022-05-10T16:25:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T16:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amnewsworld.com\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2022-05-10T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T16:25:04","slug":"spain-sacks-intelligence-chief-after-politicians-mobile-phones-hacked-and-infected-with-pegasus-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amnewsworld.com\/fi\/spain-sacks-intelligence-chief-after-politicians-mobile-phones-hacked-and-infected-with-pegasus-spyware\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain sacks intelligence chief after politicians&#8217; mobile phones hacked and infected with Pegasus spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Defense Minister Margarita Robles and several supporters of Catalonian independence were among those targeted by the spyware, developed by an Israeli surveillance company called NSO Group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s National Intelligence Centre (CNI) has been criticized for its role in spying on Catalan separatists and taking a full year to discover that the handsets of the prime minister and key defense and security officials had been breached, possibly by a foreign power.<\/p>\n<p>During a closed-door parliamentary hearing last week, CNI director Paz Esteban admitted that she had given permission for her agency to hack the phones of several separatists.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Robles announced that Ms Esteban would leave her post.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region \" data-interscroller=\"true\" data-format=\"floated-mpu\" data-role=\"sticky-region\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-layout\" data-init=\"true\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__target\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__mask\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__content\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-au-wrapper \">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-au site-component-vertical-margin\" data-ad-format=\"mpu-1\" data-type=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<div data-consent=\"false\" data-vendor-name=\"peer-39\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"mpu-1\" class=\"sdc-site-au__mpu-1\" data-role=\"ad-container\" data-config=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;mpu-1&quot;,&quot;ad-type&quot;:&quot;mpu-1&quot;,&quot;showLabel&quot;:true,&quot;targeting&quot;:[],&quot;size&quot;:{&quot;mobile&quot;:[[300,250],[300,600]],&quot;tablet&quot;:[[300,250],[300,600]],&quot;desktop&quot;:[[300,250],[300,600]]}}\" data-targeting=\"{&quot;platform&quot;:&quot;live&quot;,&quot;advert-targeting&quot;:&quot;'platform': 'live'&quot;,&quot;artId&quot;:&quot;12609936&quot;}\" data-targeting-strnativekey=\"\" data-targeting-platform=\"\" data-tag=\"20346936\/skynews\/world\/content\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-mpu\" data-peer39-url=\"https:\/\/tags.peer39.com\/1497\/trg_1497.js\" data-peer39-id=\"1497\" data-peer39-timeout=\"2500\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-tolerance=\"2\" data-init=\"true\">She said the delay in discovering the hacks made it &#8220;clear there are things that we need to improve&#8221;.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-au \" data-ad-format=\"teads\" data-type=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<div data-consent=\"false\" data-vendor-name=\"peer-39\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"teads\" class=\"sdc-site-au__teads\" data-role=\"ad-container\" data-config=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;teads&quot;,&quot;ad-type&quot;:&quot;teads&quot;,&quot;targeting&quot;:[],&quot;size&quot;:{&quot;mobile&quot;:[[4,4]],&quot;tablet&quot;:[[4,4]],&quot;desktop&quot;:[[4,4]]}}\" data-targeting=\"{&quot;platform&quot;:&quot;live&quot;,&quot;advert-targeting&quot;:&quot;'platform': 'live'&quot;,&quot;artId&quot;:&quot;12609936&quot;}\" data-targeting-strnativekey=\"\" data-targeting-platform=\"\" data-tag=\"20346936\/skynews\/world\/content\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-mpu\" data-peer39-url=\"https:\/\/tags.peer39.com\/1497\/trg_1497.js\" data-peer39-id=\"1497\" data-peer39-timeout=\"2500\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-tolerance=\"2\" data-init=\"true\">&#8220;We are going to try to ensure that these attacks don&#8217;t happen again, even though there is no way to be completely safe,&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ms Esteban will be replaced by Esperanza Casteleiro, who has worked for almost 40 years at the intelligence agency and most recently served as the secretary of defense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;External power&#8217; blamed for Pegasus breaches<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a separate case, the government recently revealed that an &#8220;external&#8221; power had used Pegasus software to infect the phones of Ms Robles, Mr Sanchez and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska last year.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Canada&#8217;s digital rights group Citizen Lab said more than 60 people linked to the Catalan separatist movement had been targeted by the spyware, which was developed by an Israeli surveillance company called NSO Group.<\/p>\n<p>The software has allegedly been <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/sophisticated-malware-is-being-used-to-spy-on-journalists-politicians-and-human-rights-activists-12358847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">used to target journalists, political dissidents and human rights activists<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/22\/05\/768x432\/skynews-pedro-sanchez_5767229.jpg?bypass-service-worker&amp;20220510141224\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/22\/05\/384x216\/skynews-pedro-sanchez_5767229.jpg?bypass-service-worker&amp;20220510141224 380w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/22\/05\/768x432\/skynews-pedro-sanchez_5767229.jpg?bypass-service-worker&amp;20220510141224 760w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/22\/05\/1600x900\/skynews-pedro-sanchez_5767229.jpg?bypass-service-worker&amp;20220510141224 1024w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/22\/05\/2048x1152\/skynews-pedro-sanchez_5767229.jpg?bypass-service-worker&amp;20220510141224 2048w\" alt=\"The President of the Government, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, speaks at the celebration of the LXXII Anniversary of the Schuman Declaration on the occasion of Europe Day, in the Senate, on May 9, 2022, in Madrid (Spain). This event is in addition to those held in different parts of Spain to commemorate this date, marked this 2022 by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 09 MAY 2022;MADRID;SCHUMAN DECLARATION;EUROPE DAY Alejandro Mart\u00ednez V\u00e9lez \/ Europa Press 05\/09\/2022 (Europa Press via AP)\n\n\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"sdc-article-image__caption\"><span class=\"sdc-article-image__visually-hidden\">Image:<\/span> <span class=\"sdc-article-image__caption-text\">Pedro Sanchez is among those targeted. Pic: AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pegasus has regularly been linked to activities by repressive states to target people perceived to be challenging the power of leaders. The company says it investigates these abuses seriously.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks took place between May and June 2021, while there was an ongoing diplomatic row between Spain and Morocco &#8211; but it is not publicly known who is responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sanchez&#8217;s minority left-wing coalition relies on support from Catalan separatist parties which have threatened to pull their support if the government does not admit responsibility for the hacking.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of Spain&#8217;s opposition conservatives, Popular Party president Alberto Nu\u00f1ez Feijoo, criticised the sacking, saying Mr Sanchez had sacrificed her for the Catalan separatists, &#8220;weakening the state to assure his survival&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Esteban&#8217;s predecessor came under fire in 2017 for failing to stop preparations for a Catalan independence referendum that had been deemed illegal by Spain&#8217;s top courts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMN\/Report\/Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Defense Minister Margarita Robles and several supporters of Catalonian independence were among those targeted by the spyware, developed by an Israeli surveillance company called NSO Group. 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