Fresh investigations have revealed the accelerating global deployment of Israeli-made spyware, with new campaigns striking at a Pakistani lawyer and dozens of journalists and activists across Europe. The findings have triggered urgent warnings for smartphone users worldwide, intensifying concerns over Israel-linked digital surveillance networks.
According to The Hacker News, a lawyer in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province received a suspicious WhatsApp link that was later confirmed to be part of a coordinated hacking operation designed to infiltrate mobile devices and extract sensitive data.
These attacks align with what has become known as the “Intellexa Leaks”—a joint probe involving the Zionist newspaper Haaretz, Inside Story, and Inside Tech, with technical verification from Amnesty International. Although Haaretz participated in the investigation, the newspaper itself has long been criticized for offering cover to the Israeli enemy’s surveillance industry even while reporting on it, underscoring the deep entanglement between Israeli media and Israel’s offensive cyber ecosystem.
🚨 A new investigation jointly published by @insidestory_gr @haaretzcom & WAV Research Collective with the technical assistance of @Amnesty has exposed the internal operations of Intellexa, a company notorious for selling Predator spyware.https://t.co/bjW0GClCSC
— Amnesty Tech (@AmnestyTech) December 4, 2025
Intellexa’s Predator Spyware Under Fire
The investigation reveals that Intellexa—the Israeli spyware consortium at the center of multiple rights abuses—developed Predator, one of the world’s most invasive digital surveillance tools.
Predator grants full remote control over messages, photos, calls, location tracking, and even the device’s camera and microphone, all without the victim’s knowledge.
Amnesty International says the leaks expose Intellexa’s operations with unprecedented clarity.
“This investigation provides one of the clearest and most damning views yet into Intellexa’s internal operations and technology,” said Jurre van Bergen, technologist at Amnesty International’s Security Lab.
The leaked documents show that Intellexa appeared to retain the ability to remotely access Predator customer logs—allowing company employees to view surveillance operations and personally identify targeted individuals. Van Bergen noted that such access seriously undermines any claim that Intellexa conducts human rights due diligence and may leave the company directly liable for abuses committed through its spyware.
Predator has already been tied to previous surveillance operations, including the 2021 targeting of Greek journalist Thanasis Koukakis. The new leaks further strengthen evidence linking Intellexa to systematic breaches of privacy and suppression of freedom of expression.
Amnesty International confirmed that a human rights lawyer from Balochistan was targeted through a WhatsApp attack during the summer of 2025—proof, they said, that Predator “is being actively used in Pakistan, gravely violating privacy and freedom of expression rights.”
Even more concerning are revelations that Intellexa has developed a new spyware system, “Aladdin,” capable of infecting phones through online advertisements—a method that dramatically broadens the attack surface.
A Global, Not Localized, Operation
The attacks span far beyond one country. More than 80 journalists in Italy and Spain were targeted, alongside lawyers and activists across Asia. Investigators warn that similar campaigns are believed to be unfolding in other regions.
Google and Apple issued urgent global alerts after detecting the threat—an indication of how widespread and dangerous the Israeli-linked spyware ecosystem has become.
Human rights organizations warn that persistent use of such tools endangers not only journalists, judges, and lawyers but also the privacy of millions of people. They urge accountability for the companies driving the spyware industry and the governments—particularly the Israeli occupation entity—facilitating and exporting it.
Source: Al-Manar Website