Article Summary

This article is not considered a psychological operation. It reports that Greek former parliamentarian and investigative journalist Stelios Kouloglou was targeted with Pegasus spyware at least three times in 2022 and 2023, according to a Citizen Lab investigation, while he served on a European Parliament committee examining the misuse of such surveillance tools. The article highlights the threat mercenary spyware poses to democratic institutions and notes that Kouloglou's phone was infected during sensitive periods of his committee work, though no government was definitively linked to the attacks.