Some cybersecurity experts say a report that Jeff Bezos commissioned doesn't show with certainty that his cellphone was hacked. The Amazon founder and Washington Post owner says he was hacked after he received a video file from Saudi Arabia’s crown prince.
Khashoggi was killed by Saudi agents inside the kingdom’s consulate in Turkey in October 2018, five months after Bezos’ phone was apparently hacked.
The report additionally pointed to Saudi Arabia’s documented use of spyware against critics and other adversaries as further potential proof. Similarly, the former chief security officer at Facebook, who now directs a cyber policy center at Stanford, wrote that the report is filled with circumstantial evidence, but no smoking gun.
that presents ways to further the investigation, Marczak shared a link to decryption instructions and code.
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