NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts

The 2021 Pegasus Hack of Ben Hubbard We conclude with high confidence that an iPhone belonging to Hubbard was successfully hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware on June 13, 2021, with the infection process starting around 15:45:20 GMT. Details from Hack of Saudi Activist We recovered. The 2020 Pegasus Hack of Ben Hubbard We conclude with high confidence that an iPhone belonging to Hubbard was successfully hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware on July 12, 2020, with the infection process starting around 16:46:01 GMT. DataUsage. The 2018 Pegasus Artifacts on Hubbard's Phone We conclude with high confidence that a Pegasus operator, KINGDOM, sent Hubbard SMS and WhatsApp messages in June 2018 containing links that, if clicked, would have infected his phone with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware. It is presently unclear if this outreach was a bona fide hacking attempt, or simply a targeted feasibility test to see whether Hubbard's phone could have been hacked with Pegasus. That Hubbard received a Pegasus SMS on June 21, 2018 from KINGDOM, a Pegasus operator that we link to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with high confidence. Conclusion Hubbard was repeatedly subjected to targeted hacking with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware. Outlining how the personal phones belonging to 36 journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera, and a personal phone of a journalist at London-based Al Araby TV, were hacked with Pegasus spyware.