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Someone infected a spyware probe overseer with spyware
The European Parliament's PEGA Committee discovered that substitute member Stelios Kouloglou, a Greek journalist and former European Parliament member, was infected with Pegasus spyware twice in 2022 and 2023, as revealed by the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab. The infections occurred during critical phases of the committee's work on spyware abuses, highlighting failures to implement its own recommendations.
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