Casarini spied on for a year says NGO Mediterranea (2)

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 19 - Migrant-rescue NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans said on Wednesday that its founder and mission chief Luca Casarini had been spied on by a yet-unidentified entity since February 2024, after an analysis conducted by The Citizen Lab, a research team from the University of Toronto Earlier this month, the NGO's legal team, represented by attorneys Fabio Lanfranca and Serena Romano said they had filed a legal complaint in Palermo asking authorities to investigate who allegedly ordered to spy on the phone of the organization's founder Luca Casarini through the suspected use of Paragon Solutions' 'Graphite' military-grade hacking software.
    "In February 2024, many months before the identification of warm Graphite, a yet unidentified entity operated a 'sophisticated' software attack, attempting to force the accounts of Luca Casarini", said the NGO on Wednesday, discussing the espionage case concerning Casarini.
    Casarini says he has been notified that he was among those targeted by Paragon Solutions' 'Graphite' military-grade hacking software to spy on scores of activists and journalists in many countries, including Italy. (ANSA).