EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones
2026-07-03T20:52:09Z•a843b581d8e1f0024dbe5fe9853f19de7a2f5b9a2d8acaf42db0ff345c3e73c9
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What happened
A WIRED security roundup covering multiple high-impact incidents: Citizen Lab-linked findings show Pegasus spyware resurfaced on an EU politician’s phone amid investigations; a researcher used Anthropic’s Claude to abuse Front Gate ticketing systems; Meta contractors posed as teens to probe rival chatbots on suicide/sex/drugs; Google security staff warned that proposed EU competition rules could expose search and Android data; LastPass users suffered another data theft; a misconfigured Dialog website exposed members’ personal data; OpenAI launched a large effort to patch open-source bugs; an S
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- 2026-07-03T20:52:09Z
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