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EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones

The research stops short of naming any government that may have used Pegasus against Kouloglou, noting in particular that it found no indication of Greek government involvement. But Citizen Lab does say it found overlaps between the attacks on Kouloglou’s phone and the use of Pegasus against seven Russian- and Belarusian-speaking journalists and activists between…

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Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware

Security researchers have confirmed that a European politician had his phone hacked with the Pegasus spyware while serving on an investigatory committee probing abuses of the notorious surveillance tool. This has reigniting fresh controversy over governments abusing spyware to collect information about their critics. The researchers at the University of Toronto’s digital rights unit The…

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