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Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/researchers-confirm-two-journalists-were-hacked-with-paragon-spyware/
201•moose44•21h ago

Comments

GHanku•20h ago
More here: https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/first-forensic-confirmation-of...
anordal•19h ago
Ah, much better source: iOS is the answer to where the vulnerability was – right in the headline. I could not find that by searching for the usual keywords in the original post.
amarcheschi•20h ago
I would like to add that Paragon disagrees with COPASIR: (article in italian) https://www.fanpage.it/politica/paragon-smentisce-il-copasir...

They offered to give some information about who was surveilled by whom, but not surprisingly the Italian government refused (it was used by 2 secret service agencies in italy). At this point, Paragon stopped giving its access to Italian agencies (spying on journalists is forbidden by Paragon'S tos). COPASIR say they are the ones who stopped the commercial relationships though, so it is clear as water that at least one party isn't telling the truth

rnhmjoj•17h ago
That the government would try to cover this up does not really surprise anyone. What's more concerning is the fact that the multipartisan committee whose sole purpose is to oversee the intelligence agencies has essentially admitted to having no clue or are lying to cover the government.
amarcheschi•15h ago
Yeah, that's worrying because they might be lying and they're the one who are supposed to say the truth
elcritch•16h ago
And of course the news headline I saw first mentioned nothing about Italy but rather “US backed Israeli company hacks European journalists!”. Yeah gotta love the clickbait titles.
nashashmi•14h ago
> Two European journalists were hacked using government spyware made by Israeli surveillance tech provider Paragon, new research has confirmed.

The first line of the article is effectively the headline you saw. But this headline doesn’t mention Israel or the US or the European journalists

elcritch•11h ago
Yep, but the other article on the front page covering the exact same topic AFAICT does include that in the headline. I initially thought this was the same article and that the title had been changed.
shironandonon_•19h ago
Oh thank goodness only two journalists were affected. wink

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