Until now, there was no evidence that Pellegrino, who works for online news website Fanpage, had been either targeted or hacked with Paragon spyware.

Italian investigative journalist Ciro Pellegrino shows his phone screen displaying a threat notification from Apple warning of a mercenary spyware attack, in Naples, Italy, June 11, 2025.

Italian prosecutors are looking into the alleged hacking of seven phones, including that of the head of political gossip website Dagospia, sources said, as part of a surveillance scandal involving ...

Last month, Reuters reported that Italian prosecutors were looking into allegations of spying on Ciro Pellegrino and Francesco Cancellato from the Fanpage news website, Roberto D'Agostino, the ...

Ciro Pellegrino, who heads the Naples newsroom of an investigative news outlet called Fanpage.it, received a notice on April 29 that his iPhone had been targeted. Last year, Fanpage secretly ...

One is an Italian journalist named Ciro Pellegrino, who works for FanPage and published a detailed article about the threat alert.

Apple doesn't name who has been affected by the attacks. But Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino said he received one in an article, writing: "It's the first time something like this has happened ...

So far, two people have come forward about Apple's recent alert. One is Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino, who works for an online news outlet called Fanpage.

Last month, Reuters reported that Italian prosecutors were looking into allegations of spying on Ciro Pellegrino and Francesco Cancellato from the Fanpage news website, Roberto D'Agostino, the ...

Citizen Lab said in a report published on Thursday that Italian investigative journalist Ciro Pellegrino's iPhone showed evidence of having been targeted by Paragon's sophisticated spy software.