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class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"25.304363905325\"><body readability=\"51.878544223445\"><\/p>\n<p>Researchers revealed Wednesday that they have confirmed Paragon spyware on an Apple product for the first time, on the phones of European journalists, amid an unfolding surveillance scandal in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>University of Toronto\u2019s Citizen Lab <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenlab.ca\/2025\/06\/first-forensic-confirmation-of-paragons-ios-mercenary-spyware-finds-journalists-targeted\/\">published a report<\/a> on its findings, which confirmed spyware on the phone of an Italian journalist named Ciro Pellegrino, following a prior alert about the phone of Francesco Cancellato, both of whom work for Italian investigative outlet Fanpage. Citizen Lab also confirmed spyware on the phone of another unnamed European journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Paragon, like leading spyware maker NSO Group, is an Israeli company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParagon is a relatively young company that has tried to present itself as clean and undetectable,\u201d said John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at Citizen Lab. \u201cInstead, they\u2019ve repeatedly gotten caught and they\u2019re now mired in exactly the kind of scandal that NSO has faced for years: namely, unexplained abuses with their technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paragon has not responded to Citizen Lab\u2019s findings. Although Citizen Lab didn\u2019t name the culprit, it did determine that the same Paragon customer targeted the phone of both Pellegrino and the unnamed European journalist. <\/p>\n<p>A contract between Paragon and the Italian government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/society-equity\/italy-has-ended-spyware-contract-with-paragon-parliamentary-document-shows-2025-06-09\/\">ended in acrimony<\/a> this week. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese new revelations show us that the spyware scandal is not going away, neither for Italy nor for Paragon,\u201d said Natalia Krapiva, tech-legal counsel for Access Now. \u201cWhile the Italian government has been denying responsibility for the targeting of Francesco Cancellato with Paragon\u2019s spyware, Citizen Lab\u2019s new investigation shows that this scandal is just not going away. There appears to be a pattern of targeting Italian journalists critical of the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citizen Lab\u2019s investigation follows notifications from Apple in April and notifications from WhatsApp in January. It also follows <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/six-countries-suspected-paragon-spyware-customers\/\">wider detection<\/a> of Paragon\u2019s Graphite spyware in March in a number of countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether they expected it or not. Paragon is encountering a reality,\u201d Scott-Railton said. \u201cIf you sell mercenary spyware to governments, they are going to use it and potentially abuse it in ways you cannot control. It\u2019s becoming ever clearer that this is a truism about the industry. 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