{"id":245710,"date":"2026-10-21T02:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/pegasus-spyware-infection-confirmed-on-serbian-university-rectors-iphone-days-before-election"},"modified":"2026-10-21T02:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:00:07","slug":"pegasus-spyware-infection-confirmed-on-serbian-university-rectors-iphone-days-before-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/pegasus-spyware-infection-confirmed-on-serbian-university-rectors-iphone-days-before-election","title":{"rendered":"Pegasus Spyware Infection Confirmed on Serbian University Rector\u2019s iPhone Days Before Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pegasus-spyware-infection-confirmed-on-serbian-university-rectors-iphone-days-before-election.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Security Information Agency (BIA), Serbia\u2019s civilian security service, dismissed the September allegations that students and opposition politicians had been spied on as \u201cpurely trivial sensationalism\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/n1info.rs\/english\/news\/bia-on-students-and-opposition-targeted-by-spyware-purely-trivial-sensationalism-we-respect-the-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> on September 3, as translated by the broadcaster N1, and said it operates strictly within Serbian law.<\/p>\n<p>The two cases extend a wave that SHARE <a href=\"https:\/\/sharefoundation.info\/en\/share-foundation-students-and-opposition-politicians-targeted-by-spyware\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported on September 2<\/a>, when it said at least 14 people in Serbia, including student activists, an opposition MP and a local councilor, had been targeted with spyware since the start of the year. Twelve of them had received Apple Threat Notifications in August, the month Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/08\/apple-warns-users-in-110-countries-they.html\" target=\"_blank\">warned users in 110 countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One was Jelena Konti\u0107, a student whose Pegasus infection the Citizen Lab <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/09\/pegasus-zero-click-spyware-exploit.html\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a>. The other two had a new version of NoviSpy, an Android spyware, installed on their phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Security Information Agency (BIA), Serbia\u2019s civilian security service, dismissed the September allegations that students and opposition politicians had been spied on as \u201cpurely trivial sensationalism\u201d in a statement on September 3, as translated by the broadcaster N1, and said it operates strictly within Serbian law. The two cases extend a wave that SHARE reported [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,1512,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-mobile-phones","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}