EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones

The research stops short of naming any government that may have used Pegasus against Kouloglou, noting in particular that it found no indication of Greek government involvement. But Citizen Lab does say it found overlaps between the attacks on Kouloglou’s phone and the use of Pegasus against seven Russian- and Belarusian-speaking journalists and activists between August 2020 and January 2023.

“They did not only target an MEP, they spied on the investigation into spyware abuse itself. That shows the whole absurdity of the situation,” Hannah Neumann, a Green MEP who served on the spyware committee, tells WIRED.

A spokesperson for the European Parliament did not directly comment on the findings when asked about them by WIRED, but says it has a “spyware screening system” that is available to all MEPs and has recently adopted measures to expand its protections.

Kouloglou’s phone was first infected while he happened to be in...

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