How to detect Spyware Pegasus on Android and iOS

Cedric Ferry
3 min readJul 22, 2021

Pegasus is a spyware developed by the Israeli cyberarms firm NSO Group. Target phones can be infected by a simple WhatsApp call.

A tool to detect if Pegasus is installed on your phone

Amnesty International as developed Mobile Verification Toolkit, MVT in short. MVT can be install with python as you will see below. it will help you for both Android and iOS.

MVT will scan your iPhone or Android backup to find out if your phone is compromised.

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