On Thursday, digital rights group The Citizen Lab published a new report detailing the results of a new forensic investigation into the iPhones of Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino and an unnamed ...

Two of the users Apple alerted were Ciro Pellegrino, an Italian journalist for Fanpage, and Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a Dutch right-wing activist. You can see an excerpt of the alert below: ...

Reuters Italian investigative journalist Ciro Pellegrino shows his phone screen displaying a threat notification from Apple warning of a mercenary spyware attack, in Naples, Italy, June 11, 2025.

One is an Italian journalist named Ciro Pellegrino, who works for FanPage and published a detailed article about the threat alert.

Francesco Cancellato, a colleague of Mr. Pellegrino, had also been notified in January 2025 about being targeted with Paragon’s Graphite spyware.

Citizen Lab said in a report published on Thursday that Italian investigative journalist Ciro Pellegrino's iPhone showed evidence of having been targeted by Paragon's sophisticated spy software.

Last month, Reuters reported that Italian prosecutors were looking into allegations of spying on Ciro Pellegrino and Francesco Cancellato from the Fanpage news website, Roberto D'Agostino, the ...

Ciro Pellegrino, who heads the Naples newsroom of an investigative news outlet called Fanpage.it, received a notice on April 29 that his iPhone had been targeted.

Today, Apple confirmed that a zero-day flaw used to deploy mercenary spyware onto journalists’ iPhones was quietly patched on iOS 18.3.1.

These attacks usually target journalists, activists, politicians, and diplomats. Apple has sent alerts to iPhone users in 100 countries and recommends they enable Lockdown Mode.

APPLE has pushed out an urgent alert to iPhone owners who are victims of a dangerous spying attack. The tech giant says users in 100 countries were targeted by “spyware” – and urged tho… ...

Last month, Reuters reported that Italian prosecutors were looking into allegations of spying on Ciro Pellegrino and Francesco Cancellato from the Fanpage news website, Roberto D'Agostino, the ...