BEA new forensic investigation reveals that former European Parliament member Stelios Kouloglou, who served on a committee investigating the use of Pegasus spyware, was hacked with the same spyware during two critical phases of the inquiry. Researchers from Toronto-based Citizen Lab found his phone was infected on October 21, 2022, and March 6–7, 2023, during preparations for research missions and finalization of the committee's report. The spyware, developed by the Israeli firm NSO Group, could have granted attackers access to private communications related to the committee's work, potentially compromising confidential parliamentary proceedings. The report does not attribute the hack to a specific government but notes similarities with campaigns targeting journalists and activists in Eastern Europe, suggesting involvement by an NSO Group client operating in multiple European countries.
Bias read (Center): The article presents factual findings from a third-party research group (Citizen Lab) without overt ideological slant. It reports on the implications of the hack without taking sides on which entity might be responsible, maintaining neutrality in its framing. While the issue of surveillance and data
