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Someone infected a spyware probe overseer with spyware

CyberScoop · · US Federal · Surveillance & Civil Liberties

Citizen Lab says the phone of a member of Europe’s PEGA Committee was infected twice with Pegasus, the NSO Group spyware that gave the panel its name. The post Someone infected a spyware probe overseer with spyware appeared first on CyberScoop.

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