Infection Confirmations
The Citizen Lab examined the devices of a number of individuals in Armenia for evidence of spyware infections including Pegasus, as part of an investigative collaboration with Access Now, CyberHUB-AM, Amnesty International’s Security Lab, and independent mobile security researcher Ruben Muradyan.
Read the Access Now report on the civil society cases: Hacking in a war zone: Pegasus spyware in the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict
Our forensic analysis of the following individuals’ devices found evidence of Pegasus spyware infection with a high degree of confidence.
Name or Alias Occupation Infection date(s) Victim Location Anna Naghdalyan NGO Representative, former Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Republic of Armenia Sometime 2020-10-11 – 2020-10-13 Sometime 2020-10-13 – 2020-10-19 Sometime 2020-10-19 – 2020-10-21 Sometime 2020-10-24 – 2020-10-28 On or around 2020-11-02 Sometime 2020-11-04 – 2020-11-05 Sometime 2020-11-07 – 2020-11-18 Sometime 2020-11-18 – 2020-12-08 Sometime 2020-12-08 – 2021-01-03 Sometime 2021-01-06 – 2021-01-07 On or around 2021-01-11 On or around 2021-01-15 Sometime 2021-02-04 – 2021-02-05 Sometime 2021-02-05 – 2021-02-11 Sometime 2021-03-04 – 2021-03-15 Sometime 2021-03-15 – 2021-03-18 Sometime 2021-03-18 – 2021-03-27 Sometime 2021-03-28 – 2021-03-31 Sometime 2021-03-31 – 2021-04-03 Sometime 2021-04-03 – 2021-04-08 Sometime 2021-04-08 – 2021-04-17 Sometime 2021-04-27 – 2021-05-15 On or around 2021-05-31 On or around 2021-06-06 On or around 2021-06-30 On or around 2021-07-03 On or around 2021-07-05 Armenia Ruben Melikyan Co-founder of Armenian NGO Path of Law, former Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Artsakh On or around 2021-05-20 Unsuccessful infection attempt on or
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