New Delhi: A new report has found that activist Rona Wilson – incarcerated over what the Pune Police and NIA believe are his connections to the Elgar Parishad case – was targeted by two groups who took up cyber crime campaigns against him.
This report comes on the back of last year’s damning report by the Massachusetts-based digital forensics firm, Arsenal Consulting, which said that a cyber attacker had gained access to Wilson’s computer at least 22 months before his arrest and at least 10 incriminating letters were placed on it through this attack.
In July this year, as a part of the Pegasus Project, The Wire had reported that Wilson was one of the first targets – attacked as early as mid-2017 – of the highly intrusive Pegasus spyware. He was one of the first to be arrested in the Elgar Parishad case.
Late last year, The Wire had also reported based on Arsenal Consulting’s findings that Wilson was a victim of both surveillance and incriminating document delivery for close to a year before his arrest on June 6, 2018.
Arsenal Consulting, which was engaged by Wilson’s defence lawyers to study the electronic evidence submitted against him in the Elgar Parishad case, says it has found Pegasus indicators on the Windows volume of Wilson’s computer in two iTunes backups from an iPhone 6S.
SentinelOne findings
Now, findings by US experts under the cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, on which The Washington Post has reported, have it that Wilson was targeted in a nearly decade-long...
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