Arsen Babayan: How authorities infect victims’ phones with Pegasus spyware

Arsen Babayan, a member of the opposition Homeland Party Board, reflected on the Pegasus spyware attacks targeting Armenia’s opposition.

"There has been much talk recently about the well-known Pegasus software. The authorities, as you know, have spent millions of dollars to use a super-powerful and most inhumane cyber-weapon against opposition figures,” he wrote on Facebook on Saturday.

“The authorities infect the phones of the victims using the Pegasus software through:

1. An ordinary phone call. Even if you don't answer that call, using the operator, the Pegasus software is installed on the phone. It cannot be uninstalled even if the phone is completely formatted.

2. An ordinary test message. No matter whether you c...