Pegasus Spyware Hacked MEP Serving on European Parliament PEGA Committee

Citizen Lab forensic analysis confirmed that Greek MEP Stelios Kouloglou’s iPhone was compromised twice with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware (21 Oct 2022 and 6–7 Mar 2023) while he served on the European Parliament PEGA committee. Attacks used a PWNYOURHOME zero-click exploit chain delivered via HomeKit and MessagesBlastDoorService against an iOS 15.5 device; infrastructure overlap (a HomeKit lookup email) links these infections to other Pegasus targets across Europe. The report warns the spyware likely captured non-public PEGA deliberations and possibly protected health data, and urges immediate forensic screening of committee members, adoption of Lockdown/Advanced Protection, and formal EU investigations.