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Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware

by moose44 on 6/12/25, 3:39 PM with 10 comments

• by amarcheschi on 6/12/25, 4:28 PM

  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 forbidden by Paragon'S tos). COPASIR say they are the ones who stopped the commercial relationships though, so it is clear as water that at least one party isn't telling the truth

• by mycall on 6/14/25, 4:06 AM

  This is a differenet Paragon than Paragon Software who make file system drivers?

• by shironandonon_ on 6/12/25, 5:47 PM

  Oh thank goodness only two journalists were affected. wink

• by engels_gibs on 6/12/25, 6:13 PM

  Lets rewrite this in the way the media would report if it was russian (or chinese) software:

  "Russia continues to undermine western democracies and infiltrate our media and public institutions. In the latest development, Putin is using russian hacking software to spy on our citizens. This shows that Russia and Chinese software continue to be a threat to civil liberties everywhere.

  In other news, 20 hamas-linked students were arrested for organizing a protest against peaceful israeli intervention in the Middle East..."