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European journalists targeted with Paragon Solutions spyware, say researchers
Citizen Lab says it found ‘digital fingerprints’ of military-grade spyware that Italy has admitted using against activists
The hacking mystery roiling the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing government is deepening after researchers said they had found new evidence that two more journalists were targeted using the same military-grade spyware that Italy has admitted to using against activists. Now a report by researchers at the Citizen Lab has revealed that a close colleague of Cancellato, Ciro Pellegrino, who is head of the investigative outlet Fanpage.it’s Naples bureau, was also targeted by a user of Paragon Solution’s spyware, which is called Graphite. A report released by the Copasir parliamentary committee found that Italy’s domestic and foreign intelligence agencies had contracts with Paragon in 2023 and 2024, and that the hacking software was used with the permission of a prosecutor and in limited circumstances.
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