WARSAW, Poland--The aggressive cellphone break-ins of a high-profile lawyer representing top Polish opposition figures came in the final weeks of pivotal 2019 parliamentary elections.... The Pegasus spyware has also been linked to Hungary, which like Poland has been denounced for anti-democratic abuses.... Last month, a Hungarian governing party official acknowledged that the government had purchased Pegasus licenses.In 2019, independent Polish broadcaster TVN found evidence the government ant

A global media consortium last year uncovered dozens of high-profile cases in which the NSO Group malware was employed to eavesdrop on journalists, politicians, diplomats, lawyers and human rights activists from the Middle East to Mexico.... The revelations have rocked Poland, drawing comparisons to the 1970s Watergate scandal in the United States and eliciting calls for an investigation and accountability.... NSO Group does not identify its customers but says it only sells Pegasus to governme

Poland has admitted that it bought advanced spyware from controversial Israeli surveillance software maker NSO Group. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the country’s ruling conservative party, Law and Justice, said in an interview that the software, Pegasus, is being used by secret services in many countries to combat crime and corruption.... He noted that Pegasus represents a technological advancement over earlier monitoring systems, which did not allow the services to monitor encrypted messag

Krzysztof Brejza’s mobile phone was hacked with military-grade spyware nearly three dozen times in 2019 when he was running the opposition's campaign against the right-wing populist government in parliamentary elections, an internet watchdog found.... 23, 2019, said Citizen Lab researchers, who have been tracking government abuses of NSO malware for years. The other two hacks were identified earlier this week after a joint Citizen Lab-Associated Press investigation.... All three victims blame

With the hacking revelation, Brejza now questions whether the election was fair.It's the third finding by the University of Toronto’s nonprofit Citizen Lab that a Polish opposition figure was hacked with Pegasus spyware from the Israeli hacking tools firm NSO Group.... 23, 2019, said Citizen Lab researchers, who have been tracking government abuses of NSO malware for years. The other two hacks were identified earlier this week after a joint Citizen Lab-Associated Press investigation.... Pegasu

Kaczynski’s allies had previously denied that Poland purchased and used Pegasus.... Advertisement The interview with him follows exclusive reports by the Associated Press that Citizen Lab, a cyber watchdog group at the University of Toronto, found that three Polish government critics were hacked with NSO’s Pegasus spyware.... Text messages stolen from Brejza’s phone were doctored and aired by state-controlled TV as part of a smear campaign in the heat of the race, which the populist ruling par