Citizen Lab Links Pegasus Hack to Former EU Spyware Investigator

Israel Hayom reported at 11:02 IDT on Citizen Lab's first-party forensic report that former Greek MEP Stelios Kouloglou, who served on the European Parliament's PEGA spyware committee, was hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus while the committee investigated spyware abuse. Citizen Lab says infections occurred in October 2022 and March 2023 and could have exposed confidential parliamentary deliberations, but it did not identify the customer and found no indication Greece was responsible. Reuters, The Record, Wired and TechCrunch say NSO did not respond to requests. Israeli cyber exports are meant for lawful security missions; alleged misuse by unnamed foreign operators is a reason for tighter licensing, end-user controls and democratic accountability, not for blanket attacks on Israel's technology sector.