EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones
2026-07-04T08:52:09Z•8661432256377905cceb02fea1ce56b3b4cac53ab3ae56a9e95bc96fccf33063
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What happened
Multiple high-impact security and privacy incidents reported: Pegasus-style spyware was found on an EU lawmaker’s phone amid an investigation into surveillance of politicians; repeated data-exposure events (LastPass compromise, Dialog misconfiguration and related leaks) exposed sensitive personal details including national-security personnel; ShinyHunters/other actors are exploiting an Oracle zero-day; a critical secure-boot cryptographic key expiry deadline affects Windows and Linux boot security; and AI-related risks are proliferating—an LLM (Anthropic Claude) was used to abuse a ticketing s
Why it matters
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- wired_security
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- 8661432256377905cceb02fea1ce56b3b4cac53ab3ae56a9e95bc96fccf33063
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- 2026-07-04T08:52:09Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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