Italian lawmakers say Italy used spyware to target phones of immigration activists, but not against journalist

An Italian parliamentary committee confirmed that the Italian government used spyware made by the Israeli company Paragon to hack several activists working to save immigrants at sea. The committee, however, said its investigation concluded that a prominent Italian journalist was not among the victims, leaving key questions about the spyware attacks unanswered.

The Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic, known as COPASIR, published a report on Thursday that concluded a months-long inquiry into the use of Paragon’s spyware, known as Graphite, across Italy. Israeli newspaper Haaretz first wrote about the report .

In January, WhatsApp began sending notifications to around 90 of its users , alerting them that they may have been targeted with Paragon’s spyware. Several