{"id":543827,"date":"2026-07-16T05:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/543827\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T05:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:08:08","slug":"codename-morgan-a-look-back-at-moroccos-acquisition-of-pegasus-involving-israel-and-the-united-arab-emirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/543827\/","title":{"rendered":"Codename \u201cMorgan\u201d: A look back at Morocco\u2019s acquisition of Pegasus, involving Israel and the United Arab Emirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, it\u2019s a seemingly ordinary email address: s*******@gmail.com. Yet it enabled the consortium to identify DGST agent Farid S: \u201can IT specialist in the systems department,\u201d Safir confirmed. The address was used to register the TLS certificate for an internal DGST domain name, tersim.ma, according to analyses by Amnesty\u2019s Security Lab. But Farid is also obsessed with Google Maps reviews and ratings, revealing clues about his personal and professional life. For example, he has spent a lot of time in the Harhoura Forest, \u201can ideal place for sports, especially walking and running,\u201d not too far from the DGST offices. Posts include photos of the Dan Accadia Resort and reviews of the MeatBar restaurant and Azrieli shopping center. Better yet, he has been within spitting distance of NSO\u2019s headquarters in Herzliya, Israel. \u201cInternally, when agents went to Herzliya for training, we\u2019d say they were in Cape Verde, not Israel,\u201d Safir said with a smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At first glance, it\u2019s a seemingly ordinary email address: s*******@gmail.com. Yet it enabled the consortium to identify DGST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-543827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}