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Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware

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Re: Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware

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Post by nashashmi »

elcritch wrote: post #9
amarcheschi wrote: post #3

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 forbid…

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.

> 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

Re: Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware

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Post by elcritch »

nashashmi wrote: post #11
elcritch wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> 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

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.
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