I’m wondering if there has been an official statement from /e/OS or Murena towards the “Predator files” investigation from October 2023 and it’s potential impact on /e/OS users. Have /e/OS-users also been the target of the invasive Predator spyware?
I’m reading into the “Predator files” now, and especially this report
The aim of this research is to provide concrete information about surveillance capabilities available from this one vendor in the commercial surveillance market. We hope that this report can be a resource for the cybersecurity community and major mobile device and technology vendors.
It would help me assess my own risk (besides the minimum €9K cost per exploited user for Predator, which I don’t think I’m “worth”) to know if this assumption of mine has been true: that the standard procedures of installing and upgrading /e/OS (at least on my main OnePlus platform, which originally required overwriting some partitions manually) flashes the baseband / firmware and would eradicate any installation of Predator or Pegasus.
I would happily stand corrected if someone can disprove this assumption, since I would rather have a realistic perspective than any false sense of security. Conversely I would be happy to confirm a practical alternative to assembly-line reimaging to stock — before installing /e/OS again — to ensure my phone wasn’t infected.
