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The Guardian - UK
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington

More Polish opposition figures found to have been targeted by Pegasus spyware

Website of NGO Group, maker of Pegasus spyware
The EU’s data watchdog has advised that the use of NGO Group’s Pegasus spyware should be banned. Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images

The use of intrusive spyware by members of the European Union is expected to face new scrutiny following revelations that the mobile phones of two more Polish citizens with close links to an opposition senator were targeted by a client of NSO Group, according to security experts.

Forensic analysis by Amnesty International found that both Magdalena Łośko, the former assistant to Polish senator Krzysztof Brejza, and Brejza’s father, Ryszard Brejza, received text messages in 2019 that researchers said were technically consistent with spyware attacks by clients of NSO Group using Pegasus.

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