Pegasus is a particularly nasty little bastard — ostensibly only deployed by governments hunting down the bad guys (😜), but known to have also been deployed by such fun actors as Mexican cartels.

It infects a phone and basically leaves it wide open to anything. You can read the details here: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/what-is-pegasus-malware/

They've found it on hardware belonging to politicians, military guys, CEOs, anyone with access to important things.

The company that made Pegasus shut down recently, but there are other comparable malwares running around. I'm going to guess something like this (not exactly this) is behind Tucker's wrecking.