New Delhi: Telephone numbers belonging to co-coaters near the Tibetan Spiritual Leader Dalai Lama are chosen as ‘interesting people’ by the client of the Israeli Group Israeli supervision company, reporting The Guardian.
The number of Lobsang Sangay, the President of the Tibet-in-Exile government, and several activists and other scholars who are part of an exiled community in India is also part of the data leaked under the Pegasus Project.
The Guardian report said that the analysis referred to the role of the Indian government in choosing a potential target.
Pegasus Spyware, developed by the Israeli NSO cyber company, allows clients to knock phone and extract calls, messages and target locations.
The report said that the Tibetans whose names appeared in the investigation did not make their cellphones available to confirm whether there were hackers tried or successful.
However, it adds that the technical analysis of 10 other cellphones on the list of Indian clients suspected of finding pegasus traces or targeting signs associated with spyware.
The report said the possibility of “supervision” of spiritual leaders and the Tibetan government showed awareness that grew in India about the importance of strategic Tibet.
Tibetan relations with China have grown tense over the past few years, with Beijing often calls New Delhi for giving asylum to the Dalai Lama.
Note shows that Tibetan leaders were first chosen for possible supervision by the end of 2017, according to the report.
This in the previous period and after former US President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama Personally with a foreign tour which also included a previous stop in China.
Dalai Lama, who has spent the last 18 months isolated in his complex in Dharamsala, unknown to carry a personal telephone, the Guardian report quoted two sources.
Last week, global investigations published by 17 media organizations claimed that Israeli spyware developed by NSO was used to target cellphone politicians, journalists, government officials and human rights activists.
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