Pegasus is a spy software (spyware) that can concern all types of iOS and Android smartphones.
In certain conditions, this Trojan horse can be installed without user consent, to compromise a smartphone.
The attack containing the spyware operates in two different ways, each one as simple as the other:
• Via the reception of an SMS containing a link or an iMessage (text, image, video, etc.);
• via the consultation of a link on the browser (reference CVE-2016-4657).
Once installed, Pegasus allows you to jailbreak an iPhone or root an Android device remotely. This means that the hacker gets administrator access from the infected device, and therefore remotely controls and accesses the information stored on the smartphone:
- SMS, photos, videos;
- All messages, photos, videos of applications like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal;
- contact book;
- phone calls (live or recording them);
- Microphone, camera, hard drive, battery and all the device's resources to spy it in real time.
How Private Discuss protects you against pegasus
or against any other similar spyware?
1. The data of Private Discuss are not directly accessible from the smartphone.
Unlike the large messaging on the market, Private Discuss does not save data on the smartphone like messages, files, exchanges. All the data exchanged on Private Discuss are encrypted and then stored on servers exclusively in France, with hosts being out of reach of the laws extraterritorial (US, China, "five eyes", etc.). Your information is therefore protected and apart from you, no one can have access to it.
2. Private Discuss systematically checks that the smartphone is not jailbroken or rooted.
Private Discuss automatically performs a smartphone integrity detection via its proprietary code each time you use the application (opening the application, receiving a call or message, videoconferencing, etc.).
In case of detection of a compromise of the smartphone, Private Discuss alerts the user directly. The latter is then immediately disconnected from Private Discuss without the possibility of reconnecting from the compromised smartphone, making it impossible to collect data remotely via spyware.
In addition, this detection is also effective against spyware of the ScreenLogger type, which record the screen of the smartphone. Discussions on Private Discuss cannot be saved because the application does not open on compromised devices, which guarantees the secret of Private Discuss.
3. Private Discuss Automatically detects if a third party application uses the microphone and/or the smartphone camera.
At each launch of audio or video call, an automatic test of access to the microphone and the camera of the smartphone is carried out allowing to verify the use of these resources by a third-party application (Trojan, Spyware, etc.). Private Discuss then immediately informs the user, which thus guarantees the confidentiality of conversations.
4. Private Discuss ensures that voice listening and message interception is impossible thanks to a two-level encryption mechanism.
The first is at the level of the communication tunnel (network) and the second is carried out directly by the application (encrypted information). This device protects information from illegitimate access.
In addition, Private Discuss uses dynamic encryption and generates a unique encryption key during each call, video, message... This strict compartmentalization of each data is unique unlike large messaging Worldwide (Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, etc.) which only use a single central key for all the encryption of their users. Access to this central key then makes it possible to decipher all the conversations of all network users!
5. Private Discuss is a paid service to create strictly private collaborative communication networks (calls, videoconferences, messaging, spaces collaborative, webinars, etc.) via a private administration console.
The latter allows the client manager to manage the rights and authorizations of its users in total autonomy. Private Discuss therefore never accesses the contact lists of smartphones unlike the public messaging mentioned above.
6. Private Discuss is independent of any economic, state or financial player.
The shareholding of Private Discuss is strictly private and free from any external influence. The economic model of Private Discuss is to invoice its customers for its services in return for a strict guarantee promise of the protection of their privacy. Large global messaging systems are free and are funded by states or with advertising and sometimes via the resale of their users' private data. How to explain differently the valuation of Telegram between 30 and 50 billion $?
“When the product is free, you are the product”.
Team Private Discuss contact@private-discuss.com