Paragon says it canceled contracts with Italy over government’s refusal to investigate spyware attack on journalist

Paragupe’s spyware maker accused the Italian government of refusing to help her investigate whether the journalist had spying with its technology, according to Monday.

In the statement mentioned by Haritz for the first time, Paraguce claimed that this is the rejection that prompted the company to reduce relations with its Italian government agents.

“The company offered the Italian government and parliament a way to determine whether its system has been used against a journalist in violation of Italian law and contractual conditions,” the statement was read. “When the Italian authorities chose not to follow up on this solution, Paraguce ended its contracts in Italy.”

Paraguce confirmed to Techcrunch that the statement was accurate. After calling Techcrunch, the CEO of Paragon John Fleming for comment, Emily Horn, who works for Westexec Adviss, answered, saying that the company “refers all media inquiries” to the data received in the Haaretz article.

This is the first time that the spyware provider publicly mentioned that he cuts relations with a specific customer after reports of ill -treatment.

The accusation of the spyware maker is the latest development in a scandal that broke out in January, when WhatsApp unveiled a major campaign targeting its users. The correspondent applications giant said that it warned about 90 users that they were targeting the spyware carried out by Paraguce, a company that was established by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (in the picture). Paragon, who has a contract with the enforcement of migration and customs in the United States, has marketed himself in the United States and Europe as a more responsibility seller compared to its ancestors in this industry.

Francesco CNCELlato, director of the FANPAGE website for the news site, who was the first person to advance, saying that he received WhatsApp, is the journalist that Paragon referred to in the statement.

Paraguce statement is a response to a report published last week by an Italian parliamentary committee known as Copasir, which achieved the country’s spyware scandal. The committee concluded that there was no evidence that CNCELlato was a target of intelligence agents in Italy, AISI and AISE, which confirmed Paragon agents.

Hours after Haaretz published a Paragon statement, the Italian government rejected Paragon’s remarks, saying that the decision to suspend the contract with Paragon mutual and then end it, according to sources whose name was not revealed by Wire News Italian.

It also quoted the sources as saying that the information department on security (DIS), the Italian government agency that supervises AISE and AISI refused to assist Paragon to verify the records of graphite spyware systems in the agencies because doing this would have been displaying secret data for a private foreign company, and monitoring national security. Allowing aid to assistance in Paraguce would weaken the reputation of Italian intelligence agencies among their international peers.

Copasir and the Italian government, headed by Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, did not respond to the requests of Techcrunch to comment.

CNCELlato responded to Paragon’s statement in a video posted on the fan page. “Who is lying in this story? Copasir or Paragon?” He said.

“To find out, all we have to do is to ask Paraguce to tell us officially who spied on the page of the fans. They said they can know that? We want to tell us once and forever,” said Cancellato.

In late April, the Ciro Pellegrino reporter said he had received a notification from Apple that he was targeting government spyware. Copasir did not mention the Pellegrino case.

On the other hand, Copasir stressed that other spyware victims have been legally targeted. These are Luka Casarini and Jossabi Kashia, who work in non -profit Italian humans that save humans, who save migrants who are trying to cross the Mediterranean. David Yambi, the president and co -founder of refugees in Libya, is an active non -governmental organization in Italy.

Copasier said that all of them were legally investigated in their alleged illegal immigration activities.

On the other hand, Copasir concluded that there is no evidence of monitoring against Mattia Ferrari, a priest working on a medium medium -sized rescue ship, who also received a notification from WhatsApp.

In a statement to Anas on Monday, Cobasir said he was ready to injure the contents of the session she held with Paraguce representatives on April 9 to defend her work in the investigation. The statement said that Cobasir was surprised by Paraguce.