Tag: spyware

  • Dubai ruler’s ‘campaign of fear and intimidation’ against Princess Haya

    Dubai ruler’s ‘campaign of fear and intimidation’ against Princess Haya

    Findings of UK high court judge have repercussions beyond the Gulf state. So bad were relations between Princess Haya and her estranged husband Dubai’s billionaire ruler that she felt “hunted all the time” and that there was “nowhere for me to go to be safe”, even in the UK, where she had built a new…

  • Sheikh Mohammed: Reopen ‘hacking’ case, Met urged

    Sheikh Mohammed: Reopen ‘hacking’ case, Met urged

    Scotland Yard faces growing pressure to reopen an investigation into alleged phone hacking by the ruler of Dubai. Detectives closed the inquiry eight months before a High Court ruling was made public on Wednesday. It found that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum had orchestrated a sophisticated spyware attack. The Crown Prosecution Service said yesterday that it…

  • Cherie Blair is adviser to NSO, the firm behind Pegasus spyware

    Cherie Blair is adviser to NSO, the firm behind Pegasus spyware

    Cherie Blair faces scrutiny about her work for a secretive company behind a spyware system despite exposing its use in the hacking of a Conservative peer. The wife of Tony Blair, the former Labour leader, is an ethics adviser to NSO, the Israeli intelligence company behind Pegasus spyware. She called Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia in…

  • Dubai’s billionaire ruler targeted ex-wife with NSO’s Pegasus spyware

    Dubai’s billionaire ruler targeted ex-wife with NSO’s Pegasus spyware

    Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the billionaire ruler of Dubai, targeted the phone of his estranged wife Princess Haya with a military-grade spyware tool during a London court battle over their two children, a High Court judge has found. Sheikh Mohammed permitted his “servants or agents” to use an Israeli manufactured and commercially sold covert…