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New: we've published the underlying technical report from FTI Consulting that alleges Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince hacked the phone of Jeff Bezos https://t.co/8E0fAk7BmV
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) January 22, 2020
The Saudis grabbed a TON of data out of Bezos’s phone, per report. 29,000% more than usual after MBS video message. Wow. https://t.co/OytOFNiTRo pic.twitter.com/nBZP7feUsw
— Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz) January 22, 2020
Disaster movie. Elevator Pitch. Act 2. https://t.co/1iAdqosLNY
— chris o'dowd (@BigBoyler) January 21, 2020
NEW: UN investigators echo the allegation that MBS was directly involved in hacking Bezos' phone.
— Raf Sanchez (@rafsanchez) January 22, 2020
They say it was part of an effort to intimidate Washington Post into halting its critical coverage of Khashoggi's killing. https://t.co/oJFm4AciNs pic.twitter.com/RmRZuhvees
Anyway the interesting thing is that I can't actually find the image macro on the internet. The closest I can find is one using the same picture, but with the caption in Polish rather than English: pic.twitter.com/B1HeTAT5KE
— hern (@alexhern) January 22, 2020
Literally the same people who said the accusation that Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi Embassy was absurd and paranoid. https://t.co/UGQDtDnGp3
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 22, 2020
This is wow. If you need a break from impeachment read this:
— Jessica Yellin (@JessicaYellin) January 21, 2020
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' | Jeff Bezos | The Guardian https://t.co/v8xdPNZRS3
“Bezos’ phone started surreptitiously sharing vast amounts of data immediately after receiving an apparently innocuous, but encrypted video file from the prince’s WhatsApp account in May 2018.” https://t.co/12qIGX6XIK
— Hassan Hassan (@hxhassan) January 22, 2020
FT’s Mehul Srivastava has more details on the Bezos-MBS bombshell… including that the two men exchanged numbers at a dinner in Los Angeles during MBS’s 2018 U.S. tour >> https://t.co/HCyIdrT1OT
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) January 21, 2020
NEW: U.N. calls for immediate investigation by the U.S. into purported hack of Jeff Bezos by the Saudi crown prince, says the operation appears to have been "an effort to influence, if not silence, The Washington Post's reporting on Saudi Arabia."https://t.co/YSoWFST26g
— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) January 22, 2020
This article claims that Mohammed bin Salman personally sent Jeff Bezos a virus via WhatsApp that allowed the Saudis to hack his device...that sound you hear is Jared Kushner sprinting to the IT desk. https://t.co/LkVTWDAMPz
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) January 21, 2020
there are obviously still many questions, and that's why we believe and call for further investigation is necessary, given the nature of the allegations and the threats posed, if true. /end
— David Kaye (@davidakaye) January 22, 2020
motherboard got the technical report investigating the potential hack of jeff bezos’ iPhone, and it includes some very good whatsapp texts between bezos and MBS https://t.co/mjhYIxsAJa pic.twitter.com/guFsJ8bwQX
— maxwell (@maxwellstrachan) January 22, 2020
The scandal is based on a forensic analysis concluding with 'medium to high confidence' that the iPhone of Jeff Bezos was compromised via the WhatsApp account of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. https://t.co/2ZdSRwPxyr
— @mikko (@mikko) January 22, 2020
Not only was the Saudi Crown Prince personally involved in the hacking of Bezos' phone, but this sure makes it sound like MbS himself tried to use the information gleaned from that operation to blackmail Bezos. https://t.co/ZPdegLMLue pic.twitter.com/ZFpWjDYMOv
— Ned Price (@nedprice) January 22, 2020
BREAKING: MBS didn't just hack Bezos' phone, an explosive report says. The Crown Prince taunted Bezos about his affair — long before it became public. https://t.co/nxOGZXOlw6
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) January 22, 2020
The timeline annexed to the UN report is damning. First page: pic.twitter.com/dWfGaAGFkV
— csdickey (@csdickey) January 22, 2020
Handy guide for how to compartment your mobile phones. https://t.co/evKjIx1Sti pic.twitter.com/mwvH3X51lZ
— thaddeus e. grugq (@thegrugq) January 22, 2020
I've tweeted this story 3 times today because it is so insane and huge and MBS is so utterly corrupt and villainous and has bragged that Kushner is in "his pocket." Carry on. https://t.co/ct78cE4anB
— Wajahat "Abu Khadija" Ali (@WajahatAli) January 22, 2020
Likelihood that Jared's phone was hacked by Saudi Arabia and he is being blackmailed by them right now is terrifying for US. https://t.co/4k7vTXyVzI
— David Rothschild (@DavMicRot) January 22, 2020
tomorrow (wednesday) @AgnesCallamard & I will be releasing a public statement on this in which we address these very serious hacking allegations. https://t.co/X9NBrrwFnF
— David Kaye (@davidakaye) January 21, 2020
hey @matthew_d_green - Jared Kushner also uses WhatsApp and talks with MBS, often. https://t.co/6AcmBb2OzU
— (S) ███ ? █████████ (b)(5) (@haroldsmith3rd) January 21, 2020
Here's one WhatsApp message that MBS sent Jeff Bezos, per the FT.https://t.co/fGqWMpZ0QV pic.twitter.com/5PI44IFRtO
— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) January 21, 2020
This brings up a whole shitload of questions, but it stands to reason that maybe a guy that controls one of the biggest companies in the world should maybe also not control one of the biggest newspapers in the country. https://t.co/UgpL66Za2G
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) January 21, 2020
The balls to pull this off ? https://t.co/oIE6FxeGdV
— Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) January 21, 2020
1. Jeff Bezos's phone was hacked through his Whatsapp account
— İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي (@iyad_elbaghdadi) January 21, 2020
2. The exploit came *directly* from MBS's personal phone, a few days after they exchanged numbers
3. The Saudis were in Bezos's phone from May 2018 till February 2019
this invites the obvious question of if mbs has ever sent certain senior members of the white house video messages via whatsapp https://t.co/xOqlYjwfmL
— Justin Sink (@justinsink) January 21, 2020
Gosh, maybe one shouldn’t become texting buddies with the heads of totalitarian states who had already demonstrated the brutality with which they ran their country? https://t.co/4aTS88ZmZz
— Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) January 21, 2020
here we received a forensic analysis concluding with 'medium to high confidence' that the iphone of Jeff Bezos was compromised via malware sent in 2018 from WhatsApp acct of the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
— David Kaye (@davidakaye) January 22, 2020
I obtained full forensic report into alleged hacking of Bezos' phone and published a report here with @josephfcox who also received report. Note that the investigators couldn't get into Bezos's iTunes backup because they didn't have password; had to reset https://t.co/I9YTV72cn6
— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) January 22, 2020
The Financial Times has seen the forensic report on the alleged hack of Bezos' phone, done by FTI Consulting. They say that the forensic report "does not claim to have conclusive evidence," and "could not ascertain what alleged spyware was used." https://t.co/1pzpHspMEr
— Bill Marczak (@billmarczak) January 22, 2020
Incredible report of Jeff Bezos’ phone being hacked by Saudi Crown Prince MBS via WhatsApp chat;
— errol barnett (@errolbarnett) January 21, 2020
“Investigation suggests Washington Post owner was targeted five months before murder of Jamal Khashoggi” https://t.co/no03HvvCig
NSO says that Pegasus isn't behind the Bezos hack.
— Sam Shead (@Sam_L_Shead) January 22, 2020
"We can say unequivocally that our technology was not used in this instance."https://t.co/WnEaFMITqH
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince.' The two men had been having a seemingly friendly WhatsApp exchange, then an intrusion into Bezo’s phone was triggered by an infected video file sent from the account of MBS. https://t.co/R0Vnl1m2vt
— Ali H. Soufan (@Ali_H_Soufan) January 21, 2020
This is a thumbnail of the video that Saudi Arabia's Mohammad Bin Salman's WhatsApp account sent to Jeff Bezos, which investigators believe is connected to a hack of his phone https://t.co/8E0fAk7BmV pic.twitter.com/KjagFhV3fs
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) January 22, 2020
Jared’s best pal (and possibly business partner?) hacking one of Trump’s targets of abuse would seem to raise some questions… https://t.co/3aAlSeg5ck
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) January 21, 2020
An accompanying piece (here: https://t.co/K6oEf6nwxI) says that:
— Chris Bing (@Bing_Chris) January 21, 2020
-Amazon was in talks with Saudi about data center business during time frame of hack
-malicious file was a video
-?: "an analysis of the file has found that it is *highly probable* it contained malware
Recent media reports that suggest the Kingdom is behind a hacking of Mr. Jeff Bezos' phone are absurd. We call for an investigation on these claims so that we can have all the facts out.
— Saudi Embassy (@SaudiEmbassyUSA) January 22, 2020
NSO Group with a new statement denying involvement in the Bezos hack & threatening legal action against anyone who suggests otherwise: pic.twitter.com/Z02MVXO5jw
— Ryan Gallagher (@rj_gallagher) January 22, 2020
Saudi magical realism is Mohamed bin Salman looking at Jeff Bezos' hacked emails, discovered Bezos had been privately warned via email about Saudi hacking, and sending Bezos a message telling him to ignore that warning he got https://t.co/nwT8hMJx9w pic.twitter.com/9EW4rZuoOg
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) January 22, 2020
I'm just here to find out who sent the first "let's be friends" text and looks like it was totally Bezos. MBS left him hanging for a full night before responding. https://t.co/vRqbRqsF3K pic.twitter.com/Uvb4nnqgQT
— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) January 22, 2020
NEW: Saudi officials close to MBS tell WSJ they were aware of a plan to hack Bezos' phone, but not of any attempt to blackmail him. Qahtani was involved in the hacking effort as part of a broader intimidation campaign against Khashoggi, officials said. https://t.co/IeBUPxDdZq
— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) January 22, 2020
The WhatsApp message that hacked Jeff Bezos’ phone was just the start of a “massive and unauthorised exfiltration of data” that went on “for months.” A forensic analysis found that “dozens of gigabytes” of data was exported from his device after the hack. https://t.co/pyB8L7mJjL
— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) January 21, 2020
We've seen the Jeff Bezos-commissioned report into how his phone was hacked - and the conclusion with "medium to high confidence" was that malware came via a WhatsApp msg from Prince Mohammed bin Salman https://t.co/BJOkYV19Aq pic.twitter.com/qEVEYWwdwe
— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) January 22, 2020
MBS texted Bezos photos looking like his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, and made a remark about arguing with spouses. As report notes, this was after someone with access to the phone could have figured out the affair, but ~before~ it was public knowledge https://t.co/8E0fAk7BmV pic.twitter.com/K8shZSE8T2
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) January 22, 2020
First, Guardian. Then FT with more detail. Then Washington Post. Now NYT with additional new details. The guy is alleged to have ordered the brutal killing of a journalist -and- hacked the mobile device of one of the leading global CEOs? Where is the US govt on this? https://t.co/IrjARO1jKq
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) January 22, 2020
Pulling back a bit: the Saudis likely used Israeli tech (as WaPo reported) to hack Bezos, the enemy in common of MBS and Trump. https://t.co/Sgc2KzZB52
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) January 22, 2020
Jeff Bezos’ obvious move is to sue the firms that provided this tech to the Saudis into the ground. In every jurisdiction.
— Aki Peritz (@AkiPeritz) January 21, 2020
Show there are serious financial consequences to hacking private citizens. Burn these companies to the ground with your infinite wealth. https://t.co/Hmc5AYgxmY
The @FT has seen the report too, and has an apparent screenshot of the WhatsApp message MBS allegedly sent to Bezos, part of a security analysis by @FTIConsulting. https://t.co/xYGFTZkhCX
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) January 22, 2020
More on MBS’s hacking of Bezos’s phone
— Hassan Hassan (@hxhassan) January 22, 2020
• Forensic experts hired by Jeff Bezos
• “Medium to high confidence” a WhatsApp account used by MBS was directly involved in the 2018 hack
• Mobile started sharing data after the MBS message
• Report seen by FThttps://t.co/f7gbrNXwYy pic.twitter.com/uoUblpDKBt
Not only has extensive reporting suggested MBS is a brutal autocrat who had a dissident journalist beheaded in an embassy, but if this UN report is right, his opsec can only be characterized as: "sloppy af." https://t.co/Ug31IBrfym Latest from @josephfcox + @KimZetter for @vice
— Ben Makuch (@BMakuch) January 22, 2020
The guy literally murdered a Washington Post journalist and personally hacked the phone of its wealthy funder. If there is this much impunity at even the elite level what hope do ordinary people have. https://t.co/ZXSmGcyANZ
— Murtaza M. Hussain (@MazMHussain) January 21, 2020
Jeff Bezos—CEO of tech company Amazon & billionaire internet entreprenuer—says his phone was hacked & leaked photos due to malware in a random file unexpectedly sent to him on WhatsApp cuz *checks notes* he basically fell for Saudi Arabia's version of the Nigerian prince scam? https://t.co/x81VgyKsTa
— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) January 22, 2020
a key first point: @AgnesCallamard & i regularly receive information from sources about serious human rights violations, from all over the world. we are mandated by the @UNHumanRights Council to address credible allegations of violation.
— David Kaye (@davidakaye) January 22, 2020
To be fair that’s not the worst hacking a Saudi Prince has been involved in. https://t.co/bZFooraSX4
— Mallow News (@MallowNews) January 21, 2020
#Jamal pic.twitter.com/8ej1rUBXVb
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) January 22, 2020
As we previously reported, Kushner chatted regularly with MBS on WhatsApp. It is near-certain that MBS pulled this same hack on Kushner and Saudi has therefore had secret access to his phone for years. Trump forced his security clearance through. https://t.co/2tyNC1NZAE https://t.co/SggTh63qfQ
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) January 21, 2020
This U.N. report on the Bezos hack draws a line from Jamal Khashoggi criticizing Trump at a D.C. think tank event to his silencing by the Saudi state https://t.co/hkpnvv26Af
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) January 22, 2020
Two other things I reported in September: NSO Group has a kill switch it can use against customers who misbehave. It's killed customer access three times. It also has a contractual right to audit which phone numbers get targeted by its tech if it suspects misuse.
— Becky Peterson (@beckpeterson) January 22, 2020
There's also the likely related matter of the Saudis' and Trump's joint interest in sabotaging Bezos, raising the important question of what Kushner and Trump knew, and when they knew it. https://t.co/diwjUHIL9V
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) January 22, 2020
When this headline says "Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'" it doesn't mean it figuratively — Mohamed bin Salman personally hacked Jeff Bezos' phone. Incredible. https://t.co/3H2xuSOfXl
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) January 21, 2020
neither agnes nor i are infosec experts. so we consulted independent experts. based on their responses, which included questions about strength of forensics, we decided to raise concerns as we are today.
— David Kaye (@davidakaye) January 22, 2020
Among the most important details: NSO Group sells its Pegasus tools based on the number of people the customer wants to target. It's not a free-for-all SaaS product. @haaretzcom previously reported that Saudi Arabia paid $55 million to use Pegasus in 2017.
— Becky Peterson (@beckpeterson) January 22, 2020
We're about to to find out whether messing with a billionaire's phone is going to be a bigger international problem for Saudi Arabia than killing one of that billionaire's employees.https://t.co/wvzchLIZe8
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) January 22, 2020
Per this report: Bezos was in a WhatsApp chat with Saudi's MBS when unprompted the crown prince sent him a random file. The file it appears contained malware, which allowed Bezos' phone to be hacked ... leading to leaks of photos designed to embarass him https://t.co/7dC5F8qCzs
— Chris Bing (@Bing_Chris) January 21, 2020
Sure, let us know when MBS will be made available for a deposition https://t.co/kqYCKSlU81
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) January 22, 2020
So a Saudi royal may have hacked the phone of the owner of a major US newspaper whose columnist (a Saudi dissident) was murdered in a Saudi consulate ... https://t.co/DMtDhfPdEG
— Dan Mihalopoulos (@dmihalopoulos) January 21, 2020
7. Yes it was Pegasus, the cyberweapon made by Israeli company NSO
— İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي (@iyad_elbaghdadi) January 21, 2020
8. You think you're safe if you use Signal with disappearing messages? Think again
9. Between May and October 2018, the Saudis also hacked many others. All were about free speech, not business.
The irony is that NSO Group uses Amazon Web Services to interact with WhatsApp's APIs. So if NSO was behind the intrusion, then some of the key evidence is available to Bezos' excellent AWS security team. https://t.co/R5jOYtpoZX
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) January 21, 2020
Wasn’t there a Washington Post journalist who had good contacts throughout a Saudi Arabia who could have probed this? Oh wait. Never mind. You murdered him, dismembered the body and tried to cover up the crime. Also, pro tip: Hacking is a term you guys should eschew for a while. https://t.co/5K4bOzfE3d
— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 22, 2020
Everyone know you take MBS’s WhatsApp messages on your burner phone.
— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) January 21, 2020
So we can assume everyone who has been messaging with MBS has been hacked, yes?
— Elli : Still Not Stopping (@ElliAdventurer) January 21, 2020
Ahem. Mr. Jared Kusher, could you please pick up the white courtesy phone?@MingGao26 https://t.co/ZcSDetNJHX pic.twitter.com/BFoWE0WMAD
The Guardian's @skirchy reports that Amazon and WaPo owner Jeff Bezos was hacked with spyware from MBS's own WhatsApp account: https://t.co/QmnauzKNAQ
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) January 21, 2020
Not a cell phone in sight, just people living in the moment pic.twitter.com/nafOQPseT2
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) January 22, 2020
a few comments of background in relation to release of our public statement just now – a statement which is *not a report*, as some have characterized it, but a call for investigation in light of serious human rights allegations. report is here: https://t.co/FOiwxhWTLH pic.twitter.com/II1IZympbX
— David Kaye (@davidakaye) January 22, 2020
"Hello MBS" https://t.co/Hoyz1ebUVi pic.twitter.com/wlyIU5e4X0
— James Cook (@JamesLiamCook) January 22, 2020
Two people who very much deserve each other. https://t.co/9LieHirQIG
— X Soviet (@XSovietNews) January 21, 2020
If correct, this is wild.
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) January 21, 2020
"The encrypted message from the number used by Mohammed bin Salman is believed to have included a malicious file that infiltrated the phone of the world’s richest man, according to the results of a digital forensic analysis.”https://t.co/CJqwj53H1w
This is wild. UN officials plan to release new evidence tomorrow that implicates Saudi Crown Prince MBS in the hack of a phone belonging to the world's richest man. https://t.co/vGmw1RFYqN
— Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff) January 22, 2020
Experts hired by Jeff Bezos have concluded with a ‘medium to high confidence’ that a WhatsApp account used by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was directly involved in a 2018 hack of the Amazon founder’s phone https://t.co/fHAsy5Bg9Z pic.twitter.com/qJvya1FHtu
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) January 22, 2020
Did Trump ask the Saudis to do this? He hates the Washington Post and this his method of operation.https://t.co/8p5jA13M5p
— BMLewis (@BMLewis2) January 22, 2020
United Nations calls for probe into Saudi Arabia's alleged hack of Bezos's phonehttps://t.co/CnkqArP8mY
— Voodoochild (@jdd2169) January 22, 2020
The UN is calling for an “immediate investigation” by the US and other countries into the hacking of Jeff Bezos' phone, which experts said may have been part of "an effort to influence, if not silence, The Washington Post's reporting on Saudi Arabia."https://t.co/jBtJ40HdA2
— Axios (@axios) January 22, 2020
Dear @UN,
— AGirlHasNoPresident ? (@bttr_as1) January 22, 2020
How about an investigation into @jaredkushner involvement in Khashoggi murder?
And how about investigations into @realDonaldTrump crimes against humanity at the Southern border?
Saudi crown prince MBS implicated in Bezos phone hacking https://t.co/PH49kh6ld7
UN calls for investigation into alleged Saudi involvement in Bezos phone hack https://t.co/35vPFUtnWZ
— ?Fras? ppl's? Choice (@fras99) January 22, 2020
NEW: UN investigators have said they'll make a statement in the morning on reports implicating Saudi Crown Prince MBS in the hacking of Jeff Bezos' phone, saying they will "address these very serious hacking allegations" https://t.co/SjWkdqazRS
— Axios (@axios) January 22, 2020
Report: Saudi crown prince MBS implicated in Bezos phone hacking https://t.co/hlVjvrjK3X
— Nick #FBR #FBPE ?? (@hazydav) January 22, 2020
This article states "after the Saudi leader exchanged numbers with Bezos in April 2018 at a dinner in Los Angeles." but still not WHY the two of them would be communicating. Very odd.https://t.co/GoYyRlJFGR
— ? ||| вєℓℓє ||| ? (@VABlueBelle18) January 22, 2020
Two Outspoken UN Sleuths Linked Saudi Prince to Bezos Phone Hack https://t.co/N4wVo5DnqP
— Karol Cummins (@karolcummins) January 22, 2020
Two experts appointed by the UN -- a group not known for bold criticism of member states -- linked Saudi Arabia's powerful prince to the hack of Jeff Bezos’s mobile phone https://t.co/Itm2CVjn9l via @bpolitics
— Kevin Whitelaw (@KevinWhitelaw1) January 22, 2020
Two Outspoken UN Sleuths Linked Saudi Prince to Bezos Phone Hack https://t.co/1giVKwRdU9
— Mahesh Langa (@LangaMahesh) January 22, 2020
So apparently hacking a fellow billionaire, not murdering a journalist, is a bridge too far for the #Davos set. https://t.co/TSbVPr7lQg
— #OccupyWallStreet & #CLOSErikers with #NoNewJails (@OccupyWallStNYC) January 22, 2020
I mean #DigitalRights activists have only been calling out the targeting of #humanrights defenders by NSO Group and others for almost a decade. But it takes a billionaire being targeted for everyone to take this seriously? https://t.co/MiqwzWDNbI pic.twitter.com/9hyas8ybnK
— Daniel Ó Cluanaigh (@DanOCluanaigh) January 22, 2020
ベゾスの通話がハッキングされたhttps://t.co/FRQb2E6eDC
— ふぉんわ～か、ホリック (@N8J8DJI8YfHJJVO) January 22, 2020
Just over a month after a Saudi death squad murdered Khashoggi, “A single photograph is texted to Mr. Bezos from the Crown Prince’s WhatsApp account...It is an image of a woman resembling the woman with whom Bezos is having an affair..." https://t.co/yoZqd8wF6G
— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) January 22, 2020
Thos who are interested in these things may be interested, the UN Special Rapporteur has released a summary of the tools they used to analyze Bezos’ phone.
— Congregant of the Mighty-Church of Demon-Rats (@Imwastntym) January 22, 2020
cc @MingGao26 https://t.co/HWVXMAT1Wt
You can also get it via this Daily Beast articlehttps://t.co/a7qkcOwNwW
And trump family pockets money and #KhashoggiMurder ??https://t.co/3DXArtfPd8
— Outspoken (@Out5p0ken) January 22, 2020
This story is only getting better. https://t.co/6TlMUAug8h
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) January 22, 2020
Jeff,
— Jake Adelstein/中本哲史 (@jakeadelstein) January 22, 2020
Here's a thought: Don't become friends with a cruel despot and terrorist and exchange phone numbers to boot.
Look what happened to Vlad and Don.
Karma, baby. https://t.co/q6VQmSyeBy
Well golly
— Shower Cap (@CapShower) January 22, 2020
https://t.co/37LHIaMdXi
The Prince of Evil at it again. (No, not Jeff) https://t.co/q6VQmSyeBy
— Jake Adelstein/中本哲史 (@jakeadelstein) January 22, 2020
Saudi Crown Prince Seemed to Taunt Jeff Bezos Over Secret Affair Before National Enquirer Expose: this is extremely scary the way whatsapp can easily be compromised using Pegasus. Particularly in India where surveillance is rampant. https://t.co/vMZF0ZtZep
— Mahesh Langa (@LangaMahesh) January 22, 2020
Mohammed bin Salman was directly involved in hacking into Jeff Bezos’ phone in 2018, a forensics team, which I'm told was FTI Consulting, have concluded with “medium to high confidence," per the UN. Can confirm FT + Guardian reporting: @CyberScoopNews: https://t.co/gaGiPtE56B
— Shannon Vavra (@shanvav) January 22, 2020
Here’s the UN report everyone wants https://t.co/UuLozc3Cl0
— Greg Otto is at S4x20! (@gregotto) January 22, 2020
Some of the details in the full version of @skirchy’s latest story are jaw dropping. https://t.co/MqjPCq7bGu
— Owen Gibson (@owen_g) January 22, 2020
Looks like @realDonaldTrump buddy is in trouble
— Benny the snitch (@Bennythesnitch) January 22, 2020
UN calls for investigation into alleged Saudi hack https://t.co/MjobSKmh85
You fuck with the world's richest warehouse owner at your peril. Realpolitik, I live for this!!! https://t.co/WwAgegnSvL
— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) January 22, 2020
U.N. calls for probe into alleged Saudi hack of Jeff Bezos #SmartNews
— spring (@summer7570) January 22, 2020
So..not Barr? https://t.co/kR1t7WE7Ny
U.N. calls for probe into alleged Saudi hack of Jeff Bezos https://t.co/Ujk26MQhnS #SmartNews
— ?? 67 & Still Learning ?? (@MikeRJohnson777) January 22, 2020
So the guy who did the investigation that supposedly found that MbS hacked Bezos's phone is FTI Consulting's Anthony Ferrante, who BuzzFeed paid $4 million as part of its Steele dossier litigation.
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) January 22, 2020
"It is unclear who paid Ferrante to investigate." https://t.co/YYhIvWNqic pic.twitter.com/D59OSOI0D8
‼️NEW‼️
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) January 22, 2020
U.N. officials press Saudi Arabia on hack of Jeff Bezos's phone.
“‘The allegation is that a video file was sent from an account controlled by, at least partially controlled by, MBS and was received by the intended recipient, Bezos’”... https://t.co/OlT5ny6M8F
The UN wants answers from MBS. Jeff Bezos' and MBS exchanged numbers over dinner in LA in 2018. UN officials believe the hack is part of a broader campaign to silence critics of KSA. https://t.co/FApN3nuprG
— Suzanne Smalley (@SuzanneMSmalley) January 22, 2020
U.N. officials press Saudi Arabia on hack of Jeff Bezos's phone
— Mike Walker (@New_Narrative) January 22, 2020
https://t.co/PSyLew6lgY
U.N. officials press Saudi Arabia on hack of Jeff Bezos's phone https://t.co/G7Z3vtwvun
— Yahoo (@Yahoo) January 22, 2020
And they would certainly have no reason to lie to us about it ?
— ? ||| вєℓℓє ||| ? (@VABlueBelle18) January 22, 2020
BBC News - Jeff Bezos hack: Saudi Arabia calls claim ‘absurd’ https://t.co/8QwEb0Z3ND
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman implicated in hacking Bezos' Phone.
— Russian Platform #NoWarWithIran ?? (@RussiaConnects) January 22, 2020
'Mr Bezos' phone was hacked after receiving a WhatsApp message in May 2018 that was sent from Mohammed bin Salman's personal account.'https://t.co/cQ8xVHsew9#Saudis #SaudiArabia #Wahhabi #Wahhabist pic.twitter.com/P4RR6UCbUk
Of course, Saudi Arabia also tried to deny it murdered Jamal Khashoggi, saying he had exited by the back door of their Istanbul consulate.
— Patrick Corrigan (@PatrickCorrigan) January 22, 2020
In truth, they had killed and dismembered the journalist. https://t.co/eVayYW6uFc
Your new best friend sends you a video clip on WhatsApp, what do you do?https://t.co/w4AIKcbCoe
— Peter Hoskins (@PeterHoskinsTV) January 22, 2020
In comparison to the #UAE, #Saudi is a developing state in offensive cyber operations - yet whenever #MbS is involved there is an outcry while the real cyber espionage master is #MbZ in Abu Dhabi whose admin has been harvesting the private data of millionshttps://t.co/dn3eUQuAk8
— Dr Andreas Krieg (@andreas_krieg) January 22, 2020
Uhm, why on earth is the UN investigating in who hacked Bezos's phone? No, really. He's not a sovereign nation state and he has plenty of resources to investigate on his own. Serious scope creep for some bored bureaucrats. https://t.co/NKQeaL9D2t
— Tony Nash (@TonyNashOnAsia) January 22, 2020
UN officials plan to say they found credible a forensic report commissioned by Jeff Bezos’ security team which concluded that his phone probably had been hacked with a tainted video sent from a WhatsApp account belonging to Saudi Crown Prince MbS. https://t.co/zQR1O5mgXp
— Shibley Telhami (@ShibleyTelhami) January 22, 2020
Story of the day. https://t.co/uVb1NxmgAG
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) January 22, 2020
Why hasn't Bezos learned to use a burner phone by now? For a gajillionaire, you think he'd be smarter than the dudes selling (tax-free!) weed down the block: https://t.co/8QZPNvoEvF via @bpolitics
— Caille Millner (@caillemillner) January 22, 2020
#Saudi wants things neatly tied up in a bow for the #G20, including #Qatar and #Yemen, though issues keep bubbling up: Jeff #Bezos's personal phone hacked by malware sent to him by Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, analysis suggests https://t.co/JrJNwUcKDi @bpolitics #MBS
— Rosalind Mathieson (@RosMathieson) January 22, 2020
Jeff Bezos’s mobile phone was hacked following an exchange with Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman on encrypted messaging service WhatsApp, sources say. https://t.co/JadfMcr7ka
— Alyza Sebenius (@asebenius) January 22, 2020
Whitehouse calling MBS
— Luna Luvgood ✨?✨ (@LunaLuvgood2020) January 23, 2020
Can you do me a favor? https://t.co/AIVmOzGfeC
The UN is calling for an “immediate investigation” by the US and other countries into the hacking of Jeff Bezos' phone, which experts said may have been part of "an effort to influence, if not silence, The Washington Post's reporting on Saudi Arabia."https://t.co/jBtJ40HdA2
— Axios (@axios) January 23, 2020
This could get interesting...
— ?Scott Hartwick? (@Scartman17) January 22, 2020
UN calls for investigation into alleged Saudi involvement in Bezos phone hack https://t.co/MZJISfsCLv
The best part is MBS still be using WhatsApp as if he ain't rich as fuq https://t.co/rzkjG4TneE
— anna hossnieh (@annahossnieh) January 22, 2020
This may be the most insane story I've ever worked on https://t.co/RwnI8dqTCA via @bpolitics
— David Wainer (@david_wainer) January 22, 2020
Two Outspoken UN Sleuths Linked Saudi Prince to Bezos Phone Hackhttps://t.co/N4wVo5DnqP
— Karol Cummins (@karolcummins) January 23, 2020
That fresh meme goes out to all the strong-willed special rapporteurs out there https://t.co/kOK2AmIbvb
— Max Abelson (@maxabelson) January 22, 2020
As it becomes clear that powerful figures are being targeted and hacked for compromising material and leverage, how certain can we be that recent bizarre behaviour in UK (and US) politics was not a result of the similar activity?https://t.co/kyq1vkxI2V
— The Renew Party (@RenewParty) January 23, 2020
#Saudi Crown Prince Seemed to Taunt Jeff Bezos Over Secret Affair Before National Enquirer Expose https://t.co/1DGtC21tXE
— Barbara Slavin (@barbaraslavin1) January 23, 2020
Saudi Crown Prince Seemed to Taunt #JeffBezos Over Secret Affair Before National Enquirer Expose | #MBS #CyberSecurity #Amazon #SaudiArabia https://t.co/TjcyvgEKHN
— Florian Flade (@FlorianFlade) January 23, 2020
From Discover on Google https://t.co/D9izlJv3sx
— chokekoch (@sdward1) January 22, 2020
MBS Taunted Jeff Bezos Over Secret Affair Before National Enquirer Exposehttps://t.co/SoWOpuAiBi
— Karol Cummins (@karolcummins) January 23, 2020
The targeting of Bezos and The Washington Post fits into a pattern of Saudi aggression against critics, which includes blackmailing, discrediting, and even killing those who speak out against the regime. https://t.co/EV2s1HTyvy
— Bruno J. Navarro (@Bruno_J_Navarro) January 22, 2020
Why is this buried deep into the article?
— asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل (@asadabukhalil) January 23, 2020
“Alleged that the “most likely explanation” for the huge amount of data exiting the phone was that it had been infiltrated by spyware such as that developed by NSO Group, a private Israeli surveillance company.”
https://t.co/9u9ECC0IW9
Jeff Bezos: UN calls for investigation into alleged Saudi hack https://t.co/BtwSY7klmX
— Bill Christeson (@BillChristeson) January 22, 2020
UN experts demand US inquiry into Jeff Bezos Saudi hacking claims | Technology | The Guardian https://t.co/yMPlmKIkQG
— lunamoth (@lunamoth) January 23, 2020
아이폰 왓츠앱에서 MP4 파일 수신만으로 멀웨어 감염될 수 있었군요
If you’re the Saudi king, who orders critics assassinated and sawed to pieces, or who hacks the phone of the world’s richest man, wouldn’t it be smart not to get caught? https://t.co/V79XAa1R9M
— Amir Attaran (@profamirattaran) January 23, 2020
If ever proved nobody is invisible, this is said proof.#TrumpIsTrashhttps://t.co/bIegEAdgYT
— Adam B. Bear (@democraticbear) January 23, 2020
ベゾスがサルマン皇太子とワッツアップでやり取りした後、送られてきたビデオをダウンロードした、と。その後、携帯内の写真が流出。彼がオーナーであるワシントン・ポストがカショギ氏の件を追及していた時期、と。 https://t.co/he5FbwuMxW
— チャンネルくらら (@chanelcrara) January 23, 2020
【今日のBBC単語】vol.26
— Iwashita Ren＠英語とブログで生きてます (@pom_iwashita) January 22, 2020
absurd : ばかげた、不合理な
アマゾンCEOのJeff Bezosのスマホをハッキングしたことについてサウジアラビアの皇太子が関係しているという報道が出ていましたが、「馬鹿げている」として一蹴したという記事です。CEOも皇太子も大変ですね。https://t.co/jxOchmFsfv
Jeff Bezos's personal phone was hacked by malware that was sent to him directly by Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, analysis suggests https://t.co/rpth8SDiHc
— Bloomberg Middle East (@middleeast) January 22, 2020