Retaliatory Espionage against EU PEGA Committee via NSO Group Pegasus
Forensic analysis by Citizen Lab confirmed that Stelios Kouloglou, a member of the EU's PEGA Committee, was twice infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware. The campaign utilized advanced mobile exploitation to compromise a device specifically tasked with investigating commercial surveillance abuses. This breach resulted in the potential exfiltration of sensitive European Parliament communications and internal PEGA Committee investigative strategies. The attack demonstrates a targeted retaliatory pattern where commercial spyware is deployed by government customers to monitor and intimidate democratic oversight bodies, compromising the integrity of legislative deliberations and diplomatic security.
Dutch Authorities Seize 800 Servers Linked to Stark Industries Solutions and Russian Intelligence Operations
Dutch financial crime investigators (FIOD) have dismantled a massive hosting infrastructure comprising over 800 servers used by Russian-aligned actors to facilitate state-sponsored cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. This operation disrupts a critical nexus of sanction evasion and intelligence activity, specifically targeting a proxy network that absorbed the infrastructure of the EU-sanctioned ISP, Stark Industries Solutions.