Students and opposition activists targeted with spyware in Serbia
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"Students and opposition activists targeted with spyware in Serbia" is generating significant coverage in the World category, with 14 articles from 14 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include The Guardian, The Hacker News, infosecurity-magazine.com and The Citizen Lab. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Generated by PULSE's extractive engine from coverage metadata only — no AI-written claims. Updated 65d ago.
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Coverage (14)
- Serbians targeted with spyware in country’s ‘largest documented wave of surveillance’ The Guardian · 68d ago
- Pegasus Zero-Click Spyware Exploit Infects Serbian Student Movement Member's iPhone The Hacker News · 68d ago
- Pegasus Zero-Click Exploit Infects Serbian Student Activist's iPhone infosecurity-magazine.com · 68d ago
- Pegasus Spyware Infection of Serbian Pro-Democracy Student Activist The Citizen Lab · 68d ago
- Serbia rocked by spyware attacks on activists and opposition TVP World · 68d ago
- Serbian activists allege being hit with hi-tech spyware euractiv.com · 68d ago
- Spyware Targeted Serbian Protest Organizers’ Phones, Report Says Bloomberg.com · 68d ago
- Opposition and student activists in Serbia targeted with advanced spyware European Western Balkans · 68d ago
- More than a dozen Serbians targeted with mercenary spyware, digital rights group says Daily Maverick · 68d ago
- Serbian Civil Society Targeted by Spyware Ahead of Elections globalbankingandfinance.com · 68d ago
- Spyware Targeted Serbian Protest Organizers’ Phones, Report Says Yahoo Finance UK · 68d ago
- More than a dozen Serbians targeted with mercenary spyware, digital rights group finds TradingView · 68d ago
- Pegasus, NoviSpy variant spyware found on devices of Serbian activists CyberScoop · 68d ago
- Students and opposition activists targeted with spyware in Serbia Financial Times · 68d ago
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