Serbia’s Spyware Abuse Escalates as Students Targeted in Election Run-Up
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Serbia’s Spyware Abuse Escalates as Students Targeted in Election Run-Up
Forensic investigations have uncovered Serbia’s largest documented wave of spyware targeting, with student activists and opposition figures among the victims ahead of a high-stakes election - the latest example of the authorities’ hostile use of surveillance technology.
There are more indications that not only state authorities could get into possession of the controversial espionage program. And is Pegasus offered "under the hand" in Austria?
At least fourteen people belonging to Serbian civil society have been targeted, since the beginning of 2026, with advanced surveillance software. It is what Share Foundation, a Belgrade organisation specializing in digital rights, defines the largest wave of this type documented so far in the country. The story, told by the Guardian, concerns members of the student movement, activists, [...]
At least 14 people in Serbian civil society have been targeted by advanced spy programs earlier this year, in what the Digital Rights Group Share Foundation has called the greatest documented wave of such infections in Serbia so far.
Twenty-nine MEPs ask to stop Serbia’s accession after Pegasus and NoviSpy are detected among student activists. Euro MPs ask to slow Serbia’s entry into the EU by spying Pegasus and NoviSpy on students aparece primero en Moncloa.
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