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Incidents implicated systems

Incident 106933 Report
Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

2025-01-31

Researchers at Citizen Lab and Censys reportedly identified spyware infections involving Graphite, a tool attributed to Israeli firm Paragon Solutions. The spyware was allegedly deployed against civil society actors, including journalists and aid workers, through a zero-click WhatsApp exploit. WhatsApp notified over 90 targeted individuals. Evidence reportedly suggests deployments in multiple democratic countries.

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Incident 15343 Report
Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

2026-05-01

Google alleged in a civil lawsuit that the China-based network Outsider Enterprise used Gemini and other AI tools to help create phishing websites for large-scale text-message scams impersonating companies and government services. Google said the network coordinated through Telegram, generated thousands of fake sites and fraudulent URLs, sent 2.5 million Android messages during a two-week period in May 2026, and financially scammed hundreds of thousands of people.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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York Regional Police Service (Ontario, Canada)

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Unidentified law enforcement or intelligence entity (Singapore)

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Entity

Unidentified law enforcement or intelligence entity (Israel)

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Unidentified law enforcement or intelligence entity (Denmark)

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Unidentified law enforcement or intelligence entity (Cyprus)

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Unidentified law enforcement or intelligence entity (Australia)

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Peel Regional Police (Ontario, Canada)

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Ontario Provincial Police

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Hamilton Police Service (Ontario, Canada)

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Entity

AISE

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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External Intelligence and Security Agency (Italy)

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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REDLattice

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Paragon Solutions

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Entity

Refugees in Libya

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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National security and intelligence stakeholders

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Mediterranea Saving Humans

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Luca Casarini

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Journalists

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Humanitarian workers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Giuseppe "Beppe" Caccia

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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General public of countries in which Graphite is being deployed

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Francesco Cancellato

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Fanpage.it

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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David Yambio

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Civil society workers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Ciro Pellegrino

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Activists

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Entity

WhatsApp

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Entity

iOS

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Entity

Graphite (Paragon spyware)

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Cloudflare

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1069
    33 Reports

    Purported Graphite Spyware Linked to Paragon Solutions Allegedly Deployed Against Journalists and Civil Society Workers

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Entity

Scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Outsider Enterprise

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Scammers in China

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Cybercriminals

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Cybercriminals in China

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Entity

Google

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Google DeepMind

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Large language model developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Entity

Google users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Android users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Entity

Consumers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Entity

E-ZPass

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Entity

United States Postal Service

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Entity

YouTube

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Gemini

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Entity

Telegram

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Entity

Google Cloud

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Google Drive

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Code generation systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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AI-assisted phishing infrastructure

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Phishing kits

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Fraudulent URLs

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Smishing infrastructure

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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SMS messaging networks

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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SMS phishing networks

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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