At least 14 people across Serbia’s civil society were targeted with advanced spyware ahead of local elections in March, the digital rights group SHARE Foundation said Wednesday.
The wave of spyware infections, discovered in August after Apple notified people in 110 countries that they had likely been victims of mercenary spyware, marks the largest documented wave of such infections in Serbia to date, the SHARE Foundation said in a statement.
The incident offers a window into the use of powerful and invasive spyware aimed at students and political opposition members amid contentious elections, with national polls looming.
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