In a press release sent to journalists on Thursday, the public prosecutors' offices in Rome and Naples, which are investigating the spyware scandal in the country, said that a technical report concluded that the phones of journalist Francesco Cancellato and of immigration activists Giuseppe Caccia and Luca Casarini all showed traces of having been infected with spyware in the 'early hours' of December 14, 2024. This is the first independent confirmation that Cancellato, who is the director of the news website Fanpage, was hacked with spyware. In January 2025, Cancellato and around 90 other people, including journalists and members of civil society, were alerted by WhatsApp that they had been targeted with spyware made by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli-based company now owned by American private equity firm AE Industrial. According to the press release, Italian judicial authorities inspected the Paragon spyware server used by the intelligence agency AISI to target the phones of its...
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