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A former EU lawmaker was hacked with Pegasus spyware while investigating its use, according to Citizen Lab. The Citizen Lab published a report documenting one of the more darkly ironic findings in recent surveillance research: former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly infected with NSO Group‘s Pegasus spyware while serving on the […]

A new report from the Citizen Lab has revealed that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou had his mobile device repeatedly hacked with the notorious Pegasus spyware while serving on a committee that was tasked with investigating the abuse of such commercial surveillance tools in the bloc

Citizen Lab says the phone of a member of Europe’s PEGA Committee was infected twice with Pegasus, the NSO Group spyware that gave the panel its name. The post Someone infected a spyware probe overseer with spyware appeared first on CyberScoop.

Experts say Commission is ‘fanning the flames’ of the continent’s own Watergate An arsenal of angry European Parliament members (MEPs) is demanding answers from senior commissioners about why EU subsidies are ending up in the pockets of spyware companies.…

An unnamed customer of Paragon's Graphite product used the commercial spyware to target at least two prominent European journalists in recent months.

This is the first forensic evidence that journalists’ devices have been infected with Paragon’s Graphite spyware

Forensic investigation has confirmed the use of Paragon's Graphite spyware platform in zero-click attacks that targeted Apple iOS devices of at least two journalists in Europe. [...]

Also, US Court Rules NSO Group Violated Hacking Laws With Pegasus SpywareThis week, cyberattack disrupts Japan Airlines, U.S. court rules NSO Group violated hacking laws, the European Space Agency’s web store hacked, FTC orders Marriott to overhaul data security, Sophos patches critical firewall flaws and Apache fixes critical SQL injection in Traffic Control.

Austria, Estonia, Lithuania and the Netherlands Join the Coalition Formed in MarchFour more European Union nations have joined a United States government-led initiative lanched in March to tackle spyware misuse globally. The move came amid growing criticisms of the European Commission's failure to curb the EU's prolific spyware market.

Civil society and journalists’ organizations in Europe ask the EU to take steps to regulate spyware technologies

Parliamentarians Pass Resolution Calling For Immediate Executive Branch ActionEuropean lawmakers slammed the EU executive branch's inaction after a parliamentary committee called for tougher rules designed to prevent spyware abuse across the trading bloc. More than half of European Parliament lawmakers backed a resolution demanding rapid action.

And it's like, what ... 12, 13,000 total targets a year max, exec says NSO Group told European lawmakers this week that "under 50" customers use its notorious Pegasus spyware, though these customers include "more than five" European Union member states.…

The beleaguered Israeli surveillanceware vendor NSO Group this week admitted to the European Union lawmakers that its Pegasus tool was used by at least five countries in the region

A previously unknown zero-click exploit in Apple's iMessage was used to install mercenary spyware from NSO Group and Candiru against at least 65 individuals as part of a "multi-year clandestine operation." "Victims included Members of the European Parliament, Catalan Presidents, legislators, jurists, and members of civil society organizations," the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab said in a

Senior officials in the European Union were allegedly targeted with NSO Group's infamous Pegasus surveillance tool, according to a new report from Reuters

Pegasus software maker faces mounting lawsuits, investigations in the US and EU Someone at least tried to use NSO Group's surveillance software to spy on European Commission officials last year, according to a Reuters report. …

Pegasus spyware was allegedly used to spy on the current European Justice Commissioner

The European Union's data protection authority on Tuesday called for a ban on the development and the use of Pegasus-like commercial spyware in the region, calling out the technology's "unprecedented level of intrusiveness" that could endanger users' right to privacy