Targeting Democracy: Pegasus and Mercenary Spyware Attacks on Serbian Pro-Democracy Figures - The Citizen Lab
English · Published October 19, 2026 · Added October 19, 2026 at 05:56
In collaboration with the SHARE Foundation, we found with high confidence that Professor Vladan Đokić, Rector of the University of Belgrade, and prominent supporter of the Serbian student movement, was hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in 2026. Additionally, we note that Rade Bajić, who, as a prosecutor, investigated official corruption in a failed project in Belgrade, received an Apple Threat Notification. These notifications are high-confidence indicators of targeting with mercenary spyware such as Pegasus. Our investigations into these cases are ongoing.
https://citizenlab.ca/research/pegasus-spyware-serbian-pro-democracy/