The Citizen Lab

1/ NEW REPORT: Former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware while serving on the EU committee investigating Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Europe. Full report: citizenlab.ca/research/membe…

Taiwanese authorities charge executives who helped China’s cyber spies target ICIJ network The probe corroborates @ICIJorg & @citizenlab findings that attacks against journalists were part of a coordinated espionage campaign sponsored by Beijing. icij.org/investigations…

I have a new OpEd in The @Guardian with Bruce Schneier (@Schneierblog) on the social chill of AI surveillance. We cite my new book #ChillingEffects to argue that if widely deployed, it will be corrosive to democracy & social progress. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

4/ We are not attributing these infections to a particular Pegasus operator at this time, but we note an overlap with a previously-identified campaign targeting Russian and Belarusian-speaking exiled journalists and activists in Europe.

3/ This case is not the first time that a European member of parliament has had their devices either targeted or hacked with mercenary spyware.

1/ NEW REPORT: Former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware while serving on the EU committee investigating Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Europe. Full report: citizenlab.ca/research/membe…

In “How to Combat Transnational Repression,” published in @JoDemocracy Citizen Lab researchers Siena Anstis and @mmichae1sen write about the lack of accountability for perpetrators of transnational repression. Read: journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how-t…

Senior research associate @emiledirks has been elected to serve as a member of @PENCanada's board of directors, chairing the newly-formed Digital Threats committee to explore how digital and emerging technologies are impacting freedom of expression in Canada and around the world: pencanada.ca/who-we-are/lea…

5/ Read @accessnow's recommendations to companies and states here: accessnow.org/cellebrite-rus…

4/ This is just the latest in a long line of abuses of Cellebrite’s technology by autocrats around the globe, including against activists in Kenya and Jordan earlier this year: citizenlab.ca/research/celle…

1/ NEW REPORT: We find that Russian authorities used Cellebrite to gain access to activist Andrey Pivovarov’s phone. Full brief: citizenlab.ca/research/russi…

WATCH: We're building the most dictator-ready tech in history. Why? Meet the frontier AI trilemma. You can: 1️⃣Operate globally 2️⃣Comply with restrictive 'safety' laws 3️⃣Serve unrestricted cognition But you can only pick 2! Given US directive suspending Fable 5 & Mythos, I think state control is coming even faster than I predicted last week.

Senior fellow Cynthia Khoo writes that Canada's new AI strategy is reorienting democratic functions "around the false god of AI" in @thewalrus #Cynthia" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thewalrus.ca/canada-ai-plan…

Senior researcher Luis Fernando García participated in a Conversatorio Regional hosted by @FViaLibre on “Technologies of state surveillance, democratic control, and protection of civil space.” Watch here: youtube.com/live/QkpW72pvO….

As part of World Press Freedom Day 2026, senior legal advisor Siena Anstis will be speaking on a webinar titled “Media Under Attack,” part of @FPCThinkTank "Freedom Under Threat” series. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

It was a pleasure to speak with @iMEdD_org and @pfronista about the work of the @citizenlab while in Athens, Greece. "Surveillance capitalism, counterintelligence for civil society, and journalism: a conversation with Citizen Lab’s founder" lab.imedd.org/en/surveillanc…

"We believe students aren’t protesting for a very simple reason: They are afraid. They are self-censoring and disengaging from campaign activism to avoid punitive measures," writes senior research fellow @jon_penney in his new essay w/ Bruce Schneier for @ConversationUS. theconversation.com/chilling-effec…