Citizen Lab confirms Pegasus spyware hacked phone of EU politician investigating spyware abuses
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Zack Whittaker
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Security researchers at The Citizen Lab confirmed that Greek journalist and former politician Stelios Kouloglou had his phone hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware during 2022-2023, while he was serving on the European Parliament's PEGA committee investigating spyware abuses. This marks the first confirmed case of a PEGA committee member being targeted by the very surveillance technology they were probing, reigniting controversy over governments using spyware against critics and investigators.
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A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.
This has reignited fresh controversy over governments abusing spyware to collect information about their critics.
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