According to a Canadian research institute, Pegasus has hacked into the phones of an opposition senator, a lawyer and a prosecutor. Victims accuse the Law and Justice Party.
In Poland the government is suspected of spying on an opposition politician, lawyer and prosecutor with the Pegasus malware. The matter was reported by news agencies, among others AP, Reuters and AFP.
He was the first to report spying news agency AP. The data are based on reports from the Citizen Lab Research Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada. According to them, the opposition senator in the upper house of parliament Krzysztof Brejzan the phone was hacked dozens of times in 2019 while he was running a parliamentary election campaign.
In addition to Brejza, the same spy program repeatedly broke into a lawyer representing Polish opposition politicians in 2019. Roman Giertychin phone as well as this year the prosecutor Ewa Wrzosekin phone. Wrzosek has previously been subject to disciplinary action by the Polish government.
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Citizen Lab has not been able to authenticate the spy subscriber. The Israeli NSO Group, which developed Pegasus, is also not disclosing its customers, but has said it only works with legitimate government agencies inspected by the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
The targets of the espionage are accused by the Polish ruling party Law and Justice.
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Spokesman for the Polish State Security Services Stanislaw Zaryn Reuters said it could not comment on the methods used by the security services or whether certain individuals had been investigated.
A spokesman for the Law and Justice Party said Reuters said the security services had commented on the matter and did not comment further.
Senator According to Brejza, the Polish State Prosecutor’s Office has done nothing about the suspected espionage. He says he informed prosecutors of a possible phone hack as early as September.
“They don’t want to start an investigation or refuse to start an investigation, they just treat it like a hot potato worth throwing elsewhere,” Brejza told Reuters.
Former President of the European Council and current Polish opposition politician Donald Tusk called the espionage a “biggest democracy crisis in the country since 1989” and called for an investigation into the allegations.
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