{"id":17571,"date":"2025-02-01T00:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T23:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/italian-investigative-journalist-targeted-on-whatsapp-by-israeli-spyware\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T00:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T23:38:01","slug":"italian-investigative-journalist-targeted-on-whatsapp-by-israeli-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/italian-investigative-journalist-targeted-on-whatsapp-by-israeli-spyware\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian investigative journalist targeted on WhatsApp by Israeli spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francesco Cancellato, whose reporting exposes fascists within PM Meloni\u2019s far-right party, condemns \u2018violation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>An Italian investigative journalist who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/27\/italy-fascist-chants-national-youth\">known for exposing young fascists<\/a> within prime minister Giorgia Meloni\u2019s far-right party was targeted with spyware made by Israel-based Paragon Solutions, according to a WhatsApp notification received by the journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Francesco Cancellato, the editor-in-chief of the Italian investigative news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fanpage.it\/\">Fanpage<\/a>, was the first person to come forward publicly after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/31\/whatsapp-israel-spyware\">WhatsApp announced on Friday<\/a> that 90 journalists and other members of civil society had been targeted by the spyware.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/31\/italian-journalist-whatsapp-israeli-spyware\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5a281b6c4cc99d4c641f8e4232c30262cfa9358a\/0_173_5184_3110\/master\/5184.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1c0128c02839e473a3b2dc31c0b78de1\" title=\"Italian investigative journalist targeted on WhatsApp by Israeli spyware\" \/>Francesco Cancellato, whose reporting exposes fascists within PM Meloni\u2019s far-right party, condemns \u2018violation\u2019<br \/>\nAn Italian investigative journalist who is known for exposing young fascists within prime minister Giorgia Meloni\u2019s far-right party was targeted with spyware made by Israel-based Paragon Solutions, according to a WhatsApp notification received by the journalist.<br \/>\nFrancesco Cancellato, the editor-in-chief of the Italian investigative news outlet Fanpage, was the first person to come forward publicly after WhatsApp announced on Friday that 90 journalists and other members of civil society had been targeted by the spyware. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesco Cancellato, whose reporting exposes fascists within PM Meloni\u2019s far-right party, condemns \u2018violation\u2019 An Italian investigative journalist who is known for exposing young fascists within prime minister Giorgia Meloni\u2019s far-right party was targeted with spyware made by Israel-based Paragon Solutions, according to a WhatsApp notification received by the journalist. Francesco Cancellato, the editor-in-chief of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/italian-investigative-journalist-targeted-on-whatsapp-by-israeli-spyware\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Italian investigative journalist targeted on WhatsApp by Israeli spyware<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17571"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}