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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Stephanie Kirchgaessner

Spyware used against MEP investigating Pegasus abuses, report finds

NSO Group logo outside a building
An NSO Group branch in Sapir, Israel. The company sells software for stopping serious crime and terror attacks. Photograph: Amir Levy/Getty Images

NSO Group’s hacking software was repeatedly used against a member of the European parliament while he was conducting an investigation of spyware abuses in Europe, according to a new report.

Researchers at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto said they could not attribute the attacks against Stelios Kouloglou to any particular government operator of Pegasus spyware. But their investigation found the attack against the Greek now-former MEP bore the hallmarks of a previous hacking campaign against exiled Russian and Belarusian journalists in Europe.

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