{"id":758,"date":"2026-10-04T03:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T03:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/?p=758"},"modified":"2026-10-04T03:14:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T03:14:57","slug":"middle-east-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/uncategorized\/middle-east-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"middle east eye Pegasus: Egypt&#8217;s Ayman Nour had phone hacked by Israeli and European spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/pegasus-predator-israel-egypt-ayman-nour-hacked\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The phone of a prominent Egyptian opposition leader was hacked in two separate attacks by government-operated spyware, according to a report by the cybersecurity NGO Citizen Lab on Thursday. <br><br>Ayman Nour, the Istanbul-based leader of the liberal Ghad al-Thawra party, revealed in July that his phone was hacked using Pegasus, the surveillance software made by the Israeli NSO Group. <br><br>On Thursday, Citizen Lab confirmed that Nour was targeted by both Pegasus and Predator, another software made by a Europe-based firm named Cytrox. <br><br>A former presidential candidate who ran against Hosni Mubarak in 2005, Nour is also a critic of Egypt&#8217;s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and is one of Egypt&#8217;s most outspoken opposition figures in exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10012-473x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-762\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10012-473x1024.jpg 473w, http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10012-138x300.jpg 138w, http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10012-768x1664.jpg 768w, http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10012-709x1536.jpg 709w, http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10012-945x2048.jpg 945w, http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10012.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">this is good topic hone u l I ke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link The phone of a prominent Egyptian opposition leader was hacked in two separate attacks by government-operated spyware, according to a report by the cybersecurity NGO Citizen Lab on Thursday. Ayman Nour, the Istanbul-based leader of the liberal Ghad al-Thawra party, revealed in July that his phone was hacked using Pegasus, the surveillance software made by the Israeli NSO Group. On Thursday, Citizen Lab confirmed that Nour was targeted by <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/uncategorized\/middle-east-eye\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/KEDGE2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}