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According to reports, an Israeli Spyware Company has reduced access to its customers in Italy after accusations that their product was used to direct the critics of the Italian government.
The measure is produced after WhatsApp alleged last week that Spyware made by Paragon Solutions was used to attack 90 WhatsApp users in two dozen countries, including journalists and civil society members.
The Italy government confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that seven mobile phone users in the country had been attacked by Spyware in WhatsApp, calling the incident “particularly serious.”
The Office of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni denied any participation and asked the National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) of Italy to investigate the matter.
The BBC has communicated with Paragon Solutions and the Italian government to comment.
Three of those allegedly attacked in Italy have been: Francesco Cancelato, research journalist, Husam el Gomati, critic of Italy’s participation in Libya, and Luca Casarini, founder of an Italian NGO that helps migrants.
According to reports in The guardian and HaaretzParagon has ended his relationship with his clients in Italy. It is said that these clients include an intelligence agency and an agency to apply the law.
Paragon Solutions works exclusively with state bodies. Your flagship product is known as graphite and allows users to have full access to a destination phone. He says that the product is intended to be used to combat crime.
The company is seen as a competitor of the NSO group, which manufactures the Spyware Pegasus.
WhatsApp first reported the alleged Spyware campaign last week.
A WhatsApp spokesman told BBC News that he had “interrupted a Spyware campaign … that he addressed several users, including journalists and civil society members.”
“This is the last example of why Spyware companies must be responsible,” the statement added. “WhatsApp will continue to protect people’s ability to communicate in private.”
The identities of other people allegedly attacked in the Spyware campaign are not yet public.
Italy said that WhatsApp had said that those attacked had telephone numbers with prefixes from countries such as Spain, Portugal, Greece, Sweden, Belgium, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria, Chipre, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
A WhatsApp spokesman told Reuters News Agency that directed people were sent malicious documents that did not require user interaction to compromise their device, a so -called zero click hack.
