News Summary

• A political consultant who works for left-wing politicians in Italy came out as the most recently confirmed victim of Paragon spyware in the country.
• This latest case shows that spyware is proliferating far beyond the scope of what we have typically considered to be “rare’ or “limited” attacks targeting only a few people at a time.
• “I think that there is some misunderstanding at the heart of stories about who gets targeted by this kind of government spyware, which is that if you are targeted, you are Public Enemy Number One,” said Eva Galperin, the director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.