Finnish diplomats’ phones infected with NSO Group Pegasus spyware
Although I&#x27;m certainly no celebrity &#x2F; important likely target of hackers, I&#x27;m interested in this just because recently I&#x27;ve gotten paranoid about my financial accounts (after a company I used to work for finally went public and I was fortunate to cash out an amount of $).<p>When hackers use such exploits, do they then basically have something like remote control over your phone, and can start exfiltrating data &#x2F; manipulating apps while you&#x27;re not paying attention?   Or what do they do with it then?  Are you able to tell, by seeing your phone slow down or start to have unexplained screen behaviors?    Suppose that I&#x27;m logged into my Google apps on my phone, does that mean they have access to all my gmail, google docs, etc. as well?<p>Do these kinds of exploits also exist&#x2F;get used to target people on their laptops and desktop machines as well?   Or is that a little less likely, since your phone is specifically identified with you and people can easily go after your known phone number?<p>I wonder if there is some resource where people can read about how to detect and avoid such exploits and protect against them?