EU lawmaker who investigated spyware abuse was hacked with Pegasus
Stelios Kouloglou spent two years on the European Parliament committee set up to investigate governments spying on their own citizens with commercial hacking tools. According to a report published Friday by Citizen Lab, the University of Toronto research group, his own phone was hacked with Pegasus spyware while that inquiry was under way. Kouloglou, a […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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