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A former European Parliament member involved in investigating abusive surveillance was hacked three times between October 2022 and March 2023 using Pegasus spyware. The Canadian tech watchdog Citizen Lab reported the hacking, attributing it to the Israeli company NSO Group.

A former European Parliament member, Stelios Kouloglou, was hacked using Pegasus spyware between October 2022 and March 2023 while serving on the PEGA Committee, which investigated abusive surveillance. The spyware was provided by NSO Group, an Israeli company blacklisted by the U.S. government.

Former European Parliament member Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly hacked with Pegasus spyware during his work on the PEGA Committee investigating spyware abuses. Forensic analysis by Citizen Lab found infections on Oct. 21, 2022, and March 6–7, 2023, during critical phases of the investigation. The spyware, linked to NSO Group, could have exposed confidential parliamentary communications and raised concerns about the inquiry's integrity.

A European politician, who was serving on an EU committee investigating the spyware industry, had his phone hacked using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware by a government customer of the company.

A member of the European parliament was targeted with Pegasus spyware while investigating spyware abuses in Europe. Researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab found the attacks shared similarities with a previous campaign against exiled Russian and Belarusian journalists.

The European Parliament's PEGA Committee discovered that substitute member Stelios Kouloglou, a Greek journalist and former European Parliament member, was infected with Pegasus spyware twice in 2022 and 2023, as revealed by the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab. The infections occurred during critical phases of the committee's work on spyware abuses, highlighting failures to implement its own recommendations.

Dream Security, an Israeli cyber unicorn valued at $3 billion, aims to help governments secure and control their AI data in the cyber warfare race. The company was founded by Shalev Hulio, former CEO of NSO, and ex-Austrian chancellor Kurz.

An Israeli spyware firm, NSO Group, targeted WhatsApp users in Jordan and Lebanon with malicious links despite a US court order prohibiting such actions. Meta reported spear phishing attempts and test accounts by NSO Group, which was previously barred from targeting WhatsApp users after a 2025 court case.

Meta accused an Israeli spyware firm of violating a court order by targeting WhatsApp users through phishing attempts. The company has requested a federal court to hold NSO Group in contempt for alleged ties to hacking attempts on WhatsApp users.

WhatsApp has detected and stopped spear-phishing campaigns allegedly conducted by the NSO Group after investigating user reports of social engineering attacks.

Meta has accused the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group of targeting WhatsApp users again. NSO Group is described as a poster child for an unregulated spyware industry that serves authoritarian regimes.

Meta accused NSO Group of violating a court injunction by conducting a spearphishing campaign linked to its Pegasus spyware, prompting a contempt-of-court complaint. The campaign mirrored past attacks targeting journalists and activists in Jordan, and Meta argued that NSO Group's actions justify maintaining its status on the U.S. sanctions list. Researchers and lawmakers have expressed concerns about NSO Group's compliance with legal and security restrictions.

WhatsApp disrupted a phishing campaign targeting its users with NSO Group's spyware. The attacks violated a court order.

Rep. Summer Lee is seeking a briefing from the Commerce Department on the government's use of commercial spyware, including NSO Group's technology, which has been sanctioned by the Biden administration. The Trump administration's potential use of this technology has raised concerns about spying on Americans. Lee's request comes after ICE acknowledged its use of Paragon's Graphite spyware.