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Shaun Walker in Budapest

Hungarian journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware to sue state

A poster at a protest in Budapest last summer over the use of Pegasus spyware to monitor journalists and activists
A poster at a protest in Budapest last summer over the use of Pegasus spyware to monitor journalists and activists. Photograph: Márton Mónus/Reuters

Hungarian journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware plan to take legal action against the Hungarian state and the Israeli company NSO, which manufactures the tool.

The Pegasus Project, a consortium of news outlets including the Guardian, revealed last summer that forensic analysis of mobile devices showed that a number of journalists in the country had been targeted with Pegasus.

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