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Espionage Against the European Parliament: Member of Committee Investigating Spyware Hacked with Pegasus - The Citizen Lab

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Key Findings Former Member of the European Parliament, Stelios Kouloglou , was repeatedly hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware while on the committee investigating Pegasus spyware abuses. Kouloglou was infected during key periods of PEGA committee activity, and the spyware would have likely captured non-public information about committee activities, possibly breaching EU parliamentary confidentiality and privilege frameworks. We are not attributing these infections to a particular government at this time, and found no indications that the Greek Government is responsible. Instead, we note an overlap between the first infection and a previously identified Pegasus campaign targeting Russian and Belarusian-speaking exiled journalists and activists in Europe, suggesting a Pegasus customer with authorization to spy in multiple European countries is responsible. Background Stelios Kouloglou is a prominent Greek investigative journalist who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2015.…

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