Citizen Lab says former EU lawmaker on spyware inquiry was hacked with Pegasus
How left and right are reading this
- Both agree
- A spyware target inside the very body examining spyware use underscores a real accountability failure that democratic oversight has not been able to prevent.
- They split on
- Whether the story is about surveillance reaching into democratic oversight, or about democratic institutions losing control over a powerful commercial spyware market.
The Facts
- Citizen Lab said former European Parliament member Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus spyware.
- Citizen Lab said Kouloglou’s phone was hacked at least three times between October 2022 and March 2023.
- At the time of the reported hacking, Kouloglou was serving on the European Parliament’s PEGA committee, which was set up to examine spyware use in the EU.
- Kouloglou is a Greek journalist and former member of the European Parliament.
- Multiple reports say this is the first publicly documented case of a PEGA committee member being identified as a Pegasus victim.
- Pegasus is spyware distributed by the Israeli company NSO Group.
- Citizen Lab did not attribute the hacking to a specific government operator.
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Who is Stelios Kouloglou?
Kouloglou is a Greek journalist and former member of the European Parliament who served from 2015 to 2024 and sat on the PEGA committee examining spyware use in the EU Al Jazeera Online,Wired,Next Web.
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