"The execution of three consecutive attacks on the same night suggests that they may have been part of the same infection campaign. Italian judicial authorities inspected the Paragon spyware server used by the intelligence agency, AISI, to target the phones of its targets. While the judicial authorities found evidence of operations against Caccia and Casarini, it found no evidence of an operation against Cancellato."
"In January 2025, Cancellato and around 90 other people, including journalists and members of civil society, were alerted by WhatsApp that they had been targeted with spyware made by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli-based company now owned by American private equity firm AE Industrial."
Italian prosecutors in Rome and Naples investigating a spyware scandal confirmed that journalist Francesco Cancellato, along with immigration activists Giuseppe Caccia and Luca Casarini, were infected with spyware made by Paragon Solutions on December 14, 2024. The three consecutive attacks on the same night suggest a coordinated infection campaign. Cancellato and approximately 90 others were alerted by WhatsApp in January 2025 of the spyware targeting. While Italian judicial authorities found evidence that the intelligence agency AISI used Paragon spyware against Caccia and Casarini, no evidence linked AISI to Cancellato's infection, leaving the source of his hack unclear.
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