Citizen Lab: EU lawmaker who investigated spyware was hacked with Pegasus
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By Raphael Satter
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Citizen Lab reports that Stelios Kouloglou, a former European Parliament member who served on the PEGA Committee investigating abusive surveillance, was himself hacked at least three times between October 2022 and March 2023 using Pegasus spyware from Israel's NSO Group. The targeting highlights the irony of a lawmaker probing surveillance technology becoming a victim of it.
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· 2 pulledCitizen Lab said in a report that the phone of Stelios Kouloglou, a Greek television journalist-turned-lawmaker, was hacked at least three times between October 2022 and March 2023 using Pegasus spyware
At the time of the targeting, Kouloglou was serving on the European Parliament's PEGA Committee, which was investigating abusive surveillance
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