Tackling Spyware Abuse: What States Must Do Under International Law to Protect Journalists and Strengthen Security

The Citizen Lab, a digital-security research group at the University of Toronto, published a report this past July revealing that Stelios Kouloglou, a prominent Greek investigative journalist and former member of the European Parliament, was hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware multiple times in 2022 and 2023. At the time, Kouloglou was serving...