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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 01/10/2026

‼️💰Finally the transaction foresees a "cash earnout to Paragon" of $119 million.

Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 01/10/2026

Apparently the largest contract in the company's history was signed this year: "In Q2, REDLattice signed a new EMEA customer with an annual contract value of approximately $26m covering 3 products."

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 01/10/2026

REDLattice/Paragon state that they currently serve 23 countries around the 🌍 world – a number, they claim, could increase to 35.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 01/10/2026

PRODUCT ALPHA "uses AI to maintain and develop new access vectors." "Remote, zero-interaction, agentless mobile data acquisition software for at-the-edge tactical access" ⁉️(Could this be Graphite? Paragon's flagship product)

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 01/10/2026

⚠️ Boyd wouldn't confirm to @kimzetter.bsky.social how many products the combined companies possess: "together they now have between five and 10." ➡️ However, REDLattice's Investor Presentation (SEC filing from Sept 29) DOES list specifically 8 products:

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 26/07/2026

In a new letter to 🇺🇸ICE Acting Director David Venturella, Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) is demanding documents on the agency’s use of Paragon Solutions’ Graphite #spyware, including its legal basis, deployment, & safeguards for Americans’ privacy and civil liberties. www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/dems/p...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 23/07/2026

NSO Group spent at least $67,500 on lobbying 🇺🇸Congress and U.S. federal agencies in Q1 and Q2 of 2026, through its executive chairman, David Friedman – the former US ambassador to Israel – according to the latest lobbying disclosure filings.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 09/07/2026

Here's a thread by @jsrailton.bsky.social on yesterday's @europarl.europa.eu plenary debate in Strasbourg on the hacking of Stelios Kouloglou with Pegasus, where MEPs called out [again] the Commission’s inaction on spyware—especially following PEGA's findings & recommendations: x.com/jsrailton/st...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 07/07/2026

@jeroenlenaers.bsky.social also never responded to my media enquiry about why he allegedly met with Intellexa (& Israeli law firm Meitar) on 30 March 2023, during the final phase of negotiating and drafting PEGA's final report and recommendations. [Source: www.integritywatch.eu ]

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 07/07/2026

Spyware victim @nasoskoukakis.bsky.social asks the former Chair of the PEGA Committee to explain why he voted against holding a plenary debate after a member of his own committee was targeted with Pegasus while it was investigating #spyware abuses. x.com/nasoskook/st...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 07/07/2026

Dnews on 🇬🇷Greece and NSO Group: www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 06/07/2026

Following @citizenlab.ca's latest findings, human rights lawyer Eitay Mack has written to the head of 🇮🇱Israel's Defense Export Controls Agency (DECA), calling for an investigation into NSO Group and requesting enforcement action over the company's activities.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 06/07/2026

⚠️Following @citizenlab.ca's revelations that Stelios Kouloglou was surveilled with NSO Group's #Pegasus, a coalition of leading civil society organisations has published a joint statement calling on the 🇪🇺EU institutions to regulate #spyware technologies & strengthen protections against their abuse.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 25/06/2026

During yesterday's 🇪🇺LIBE session, @hennavirkkunen.wsocial.eu dodged @saskiabricmont.bsky.social’s questions on the Commission’s inaction over #spyware abuses in Europe, including the EU financing of spyware firms & fell back on the usual talking points about existing legislation & national security.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 11/06/2026

A new policy paper, ‘A Legal and Political Assessment of the Pall Mall Process,’ authored by @niaolainf.bsky.social was presented today in 🇪🇺Brussels. [1]

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 01/06/2026

Civil society organisations are urging EU institutions & governments not to participate in or endorse the ISS World Europe Conference, scheduled to be held at the Clarion Hotel in Prague on 2–4 June, citing concerns over its primary sponsorship by #spyware company NSO Group. edri.org/our-work/sta...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 12/05/2026

[7] You can read the full @hrw.org report, authored by @notzachcampbell.bsky.social, here: www.hrw.org/node/393559

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 12/05/2026

[6] 💡The report makes a number of recommendations to EU institutions and member countries - including on due diligence and transparency:

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 12/05/2026

[5] 🚫 FOI requests fill only a fraction of the gaps in EU reporting — partly because of incomplete member state responses, but also because the Commission and states invoke overly broad trade secrecy, national security, and international relations exemptions not supported by the Recast itself.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 12/05/2026

[4] ⚠️ The report finds that guidelines published by the EU Commission in January 2024 to interpret the application of the regulation have in practice undercut the rights-protective features of the Recast and **severely limited** the value of its reporting and transparency provisions.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 12/05/2026

[3] The report highlights two illustrative examples that identify such transfers: exports of #surveillance technology from Bulgaria to 🇦🇿Azerbaijan, and from Poland to 🇷🇼Rwanda. Below export data visualisations for 🇧🇬Bulgaria, 🇨🇿Czechia, 🇩🇰Denmark, 🇵🇱Poland & 🇫🇮Finland. 👇

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 12/05/2026

[2] The EU Dual-Use Recast regulation—which is supposed to limit these exports—requires the EU Commission to publish comprehensive data linking exporting & destination countries with the types of tech being licensed, but it doesn't. ➡️ So, HRW sent FOI requests to every member state +the Commission.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 12/05/2026

NEW: A @hrw.org report published today finds that despite a regulatory framework designed to prevent abuses, 🇪🇺EU is currently doing **too little** to prevent sales & transfers of #surveillance technology by its members to governments with a track record of serious human rights violations. 🧵

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 08/05/2026

💡Asked by @birgitsippel.bsky.social why the European Commission does not fulfil its role as Guardian of the Treaties when faced with recent #spyware abuses & government inaction, its representative, Martin Schauer, admitted: “I understand that this is a much more political question.”

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 08/05/2026

⚠️ EIF’s Gauthier Monjanel **did not** exclude future financing of EU-based spyware companies. ➡️“The EIB Group has taken measures to prevent investments related to this topic outside the EU27,” he said, implying such funding could still go to companies based within the EU.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 08/05/2026

Following my @ftm.eu investigation into 🇪🇺EU financing for #spyware and @apache.be ’s revelations that the European Investment Fund (EIF) had funded Paragon Solutions, the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee yesterday held a debate on EU funding for commercial spyware vendors.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 24/04/2026

Greek news site In.gr has obtained two Intellexa promotional brochures addressed to “law enforcement authorities” and security and intelligence agencies – one tied to the company’s participation in the ISS World conference & the other presenting its Helios #spyware system. www.in.gr/2026/04/24/e...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 21/04/2026

🇫🇷Two of NSO’s co-founders, Shalev Hulio & Omri Lavie, were questioned by an investigating judge & placed under assisted witness status at the beginning of 2026 - as part of an investigation opened in ‘22 following the Pegasus Project revelations, reports @mediapart.fr www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 04/04/2026

⚠️Intellexa was allegedly set to be funded in Greece through 🇬🇷state and 🇪🇺European funds before the wiretapping scandal broke, newspaper @tovimagr.bsky.social reports.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 03/04/2026

The acting head of 🇺🇸Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told lawmakers that it has bought and used #spyware made by Paragon Solutions in drug trafficking cases, according to a letter seen by @lorenzofb.bsky.social. techcrunch.com/2026/04/02/i...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 26/03/2026

Catalan activists @centreiridia.bsky.social say 🇪🇸Spain’s justice system is obstructing the investigation into the use of #Pegasus and has repeatedly ignored cooperation requests from 🇱🇺Luxembourg’s authorities. iridia.cat/en/iridia-de...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 24/03/2026

New Tal Dilian statement on #PredatorGate points even more clearly to the 🇬🇷authorities: “I believe it is a crime for private individuals to interfere communications. But it is even more serious crime to organize a conspiracy crime to send innocent people to jail to cover up political authorities.“

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 13/03/2026

Greek journos @ikostaki.bsky.social & Maria Psarra asked 🇪🇺EU Commission spox Markus Lammert about the 🇬🇷wiretapping scandal & the statements made by Tal Dilian that he “provides tech only to govts & law enforcement agencies.” More of the same from the Commission—failing to address the core of the Q.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 13/03/2026

Tal Dilian, asked by 🇬🇷TV network Mega who #Intellexa’s clients were in Greece & whether he had worked with state services, Greek authorities, private actors or any Greek official: ➡️“We provide technology only to governments & law enforcement agencies.” [Full statement below translated from Greek]

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 04/03/2026

⚠️ Since 2018, NSO Group has undertaken an aggressive hiring spree, reportedly engaging more than 15 (!) lobbying, law and PR firms, in addition to other consultants, according to #lobbying disclosure (LD-1) and Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings, as well as multiple news sources.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 04/03/2026

The first official event of 🇪🇺 @europarl.europa.eu's Interest Group against #spyware took place yesterday. ➡️The group aims to become a stable point of reference between Parliament & civil society, with regular meetings & ongoing monitoring and political scrutiny of EU institutions and Member States.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 02/03/2026

A Greek court has handed down what is being called the first-ever criminal conviction of commercial #spyware company executives – and the fallout is heading towards 🇨🇾Cyprus, writes Cypriot newspaper Phileleftheros. in-cyprus.philenews.com/local/tal-di...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 16/02/2026

A Haaretz investigation has found that at least three Israeli cyber companies are currently operating in #CARINT; one has developed an "offensive" tool that can potentially tap into your 🚗car's microphones and cameras. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 14/02/2026

Full letter: www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 29/01/2026

"France will continue its active involvement in the Pall Mall Process, which aims to combat the proliferation and irresponsible use of commercially available cyber intrusion capabilities."

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 29/01/2026

The newly signed 🇪🇺EU-🇮🇳India FTA includes a #cyber component. In closed-door cyber dialogue sessions, EU diplomats raised concerns about India’s proliferating offensive cyber ecosystem. Indian officials dismissed the issue, denying such an ecosystem exists. www.intelligenceonline.com/asia-pacific...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 28/01/2026

The guide includes case studies on #spyware vendors NSO Group, Intellexa, Paragon, Candiru, Memento Labs/Hacking Team & FlexiSPY & equips investors to make informed, risk-aware decisions in a complex, often opaque, high-stakes ecosystem – including how to conduct a dedicated human rights assessment.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 28/01/2026

For investors the #surveillance sector carries severe, under-recognised risks. Lawful interception tools are increasingly tied to #HumanRights abuses – bringing unquantifiable legal, sanctions, & reputational exposure.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 28/01/2026

NEW: guide by @business-humanrights.org, @smex.org & @awo.agency on the severe, under-recognised risks for 📈💰investors in #surveillance technologies – including #spyware, digital forensics tools, cell site simulators & deep packet inspection systems. media.business-humanrights.org/media/docume...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 22/01/2026

From Greece’s #PredatorGate trial: ➡️ In 2023, the publisher of Proto Thema — one of 🇬🇷’s largest pro-govt outlets — wrote that “it seems” the #wiretappings case was closed. 💡Yet in 2022, two sites in the group received €111,600 from #Krikel, a firm implicated in the scandal. x.com/reporters_gr...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 22/01/2026

The study urges the EU to improve reporting, curb open/general licences for conflict zones, strengthen its power to add items outside multilateral regimes, and issue clearer guidance on licensing – including how to integrate IHL considerations. 👇

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 21/01/2026

“The @eppgroup.bsky.social, now the largest group, would never have allowed the establishment of a new inquiry committee,” said Ruotolo.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 20/01/2026

"The Minister proposes to take into account a 2024 report from the European Commission for Democracy through Law to the Council of Europe (the Venice Commission) on this subject, “Report on a Rule of Law and Human Rights Compliant Regulation of Spyware”."

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 16/01/2026

🇫🇷French penetration testing specialist Synacktiv has plans to step on the turf of #Cellebrite, a leader in phone data recovery solutions, according to Intelligence Online. www.intelligenceonline.com/europe-russi...

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 06/01/2026

"Among the government bodies listed on documents seen by Intelligence Online are 🇵🇰Pakistan and its defence ministry, 🇮🇩Indonesia's State Intelligence Agency, the 🇲🇲Myanmar Police Force, 🇲🇽Mexico's army and navy and 🇻🇪Venezuela's defence ministry." www.intelligenceonline.com/americas/202...

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