{"id":72562,"date":"2025-10-13T21:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/72562\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T21:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:05:07","slug":"israeli-phone-apps-revealed-to-be-on-many-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/72562\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli phone apps revealed to be on many phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanese broadcaster Al Mayadeen English has published a short video identifying some of the apps likely to be on your phone that are created by Israeli firms run by former Unit 8200 cyber-spies and other military units.<\/p>\n<p>Skwawkbox recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/skwawkbox\/2025\/09\/22\/israeli-spyware-samsung\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">covered<\/a> the \u2018unremovable\u2019 Israeli spyware installed on mid-range Samsung smart phones, identified by digital human rights group SMEX \u2013 and Lebanon has strong reason to be wary of anything touched by Israel after Israel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/skwawkbox.org\/2024\/09\/19\/booby-trapped-device-terror-is-against-uk-and-international-law-but-still-silence-from-starmer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">terrorist \u2018pager\u2019 attacks last year<\/a> killed and maimed thousands of Lebanese people, including many children.<\/p>\n<p>And an occupation software firm was <a href=\"https:\/\/skwawkbox.org\/2021\/07\/19\/israeli-firms-software-used-to-spy-on-journalists-politicians-human-rights-activists-reports-investigation-by-washington-post-amnesty-and-others\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">responsible for one of the most notorious spyware scandals<\/a> after its \u2018Pegasus\u2019 programme spied on politicians, journalists and human rights activists \u2013 and was linked to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dumptheguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/18\/nso-spyware-used-to-target-family-of-jamal-khashoggi-leaked-data-shows-saudis-pegasus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">murder of at least one, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Israel\u2019s potential influence in your pocket goes considerably further. Watch to find out more:<\/p>\n<p>Featured image via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/skwawkbox\/2025\/10\/13\/video-israeli-hidden-explosives-kill-palestinian-children-during-ceasefire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube screenshot\/Al Mayadeen English<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanese broadcaster Al Mayadeen English has published a short video identifying some of the apps likely to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125],"class_list":["post-72562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72562","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=72562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}