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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Andrew Roth

Exiled Russian journalist hacked using NSO Group spyware

Galina Timchenko.
Galina Timchenko was hacked shortly before a meeting in Berlin of the main independent Russian media in exile. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images

An award-winning Russian journalist living in exile in Europe was hacked using Israeli spyware made by NSO Group, according to a joint investigation by the Citizen Lab and Access Now.

Galina Timchenko was hacked on or around 10 February, at a time when she was based in Berlin, Germany, marking the first time that an independent Russian journalist – whose media outlet has been targeted by Moscow and declared an “undesirable organisation” – is known to have been hacked with spyware.

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