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Italian government He said in a press release On Wednesday that the spyware campaign revealed by WhatsApp, and was carried out with spyware made by Paragon Solutions, targeting people across several countries in Europe.
The government, led by extremist right -wing Prime Minister Georgia Miloni, denied that it was behind the targeting of Italian citizens, Francesco Canello, a journalist who heads the news site fanpage.itAnd Luca Casarini, an activist for which he works The Mediterranean Sea Save humansNGO assisting migrants.
In the release, the government said that the defensive cybersecurity organization, Agenzia Per La Cyblesiczza Nazionale (ACN – Or the National Cyber Security Agency) called WhatsApp and the Advant Lawyer, which the authorities told that there were seven users of mobile phones in Italy who were targeting the spyware campaign. WhatsApp refused to provide target identities that indicate privacy concerns, as stated in the government statement.
WhatsApp also said that there are users of mobile phones in Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Litwania, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, based on the symbols of their country’s phone, according to the Italian government.
WhatsApp did not immediately respond to the request for comment, and request to confirm the number of goals in Italy, the countries mentioned by the Italian government, and other claims attributed to WhatsApp by the Italian government.
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The Italian government statement days after WhatsApp said that it has disrupted the spyware campaign targeting about 90 users in more than twenty countries, including many of them in Europe.
As of Wednesday, CNCELlato, Casarini and Libyan activist, Sweden, Ozam JomatiWho was criticizing the activities of Italian and Libyan governments against immigrants in the Mediterranean, they said they were targets for the espionage programs.
On Tuesday, Paraguce told TECRUNCH on Tuesday that it sells monitoring technology to the United States government and other unlimited “allies”.
The company also said that it “requires all users to agree to the conditions and conditions that explicitly prohibit the illegal targeting of journalists and other civil society figures,” adding that it has a “policy that carries zero” against this targeting. The spyware maker said that “he will end our relationship with any customer” that violates the conditions of service.
Fellang and Paraguan did not respond to requests to comment on this article, as they demand to confirm or reject whether the countries mentioned by the Italian government are already Paraguce agents.
ACN in Italy, as well as the Prime Minister’s office, did not respond to a request for comment.
