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Italian Prosecutors Confirm Journalist Was Hacked with Paragon Spyware

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Feed Name: The Citizen Lab

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-03-18

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Anna Mackay

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Italian prosecutors confirmed that journalist Francesco Cancellato was targeted by a spyware intrusion, corroborating Citizen Lab's forensic finding that Paragon's Graphite spyware infected his phone. The confirmation undermines Paragon's stated 'ethical' usage claims and raises questions about why earlier official investigations did not surface this confirmation.

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