{"id":1018947,"date":"2026-07-04T09:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018947"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:00:27","slug":"eu-lawmaker-who-probed-spyware-became-pegasus-target-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/eu-lawmaker-who-probed-spyware-became-pegasus-target-researchers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"EU lawmaker who probed spyware became Pegasus target, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former member of the European Parliament who served on a committee investigating abusive surveillance was himself hacked using an Israeli-made spy tool, a Canadian tech watchdog group said on Friday. Citizen Lab said in a report that the phone of Stelios Kouloglou, a Greek television journalist-turned-lawmaker, was hacked at least three times between October 2022 and March 2023 using Pegasus spyware, a tool distributed by the Israeli company NSO Group. At the time of the targeting, Kouloglou was serving on the European Parliament&#8217;s PEGA Committee, which was set up in 2022 to examine the use of illegal phone hacking across the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former member of the European Parliament who served on a committee investigating abusive surveillance was himself hacked using an Israeli-made spy tool, a Canadian tech watchdog group said on Friday. Citizen Lab said in a report that the phone of Stelios Kouloglou, a Greek television journalist-turned-lawmaker, was hacked at least three times between October 2022 and March 2023 using Pegasus spyware, a tool distributed by the Israeli company NSO Group. At the time of the targeting, Kouloglou was serving on the European Parliament&#8217;s PEGA Committee, which was set up in 2022 to examine the use of illegal phone hacking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018964,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018947\/revisions\/1018964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}