Through the excellent reportage work of Inside Story and Haaretz, as well as through three rock-solid technical reports, there is strong evidence that all employees of the Israeli spyware developer Intellexa had access to every information that its kompromat (compromising information collected for use in blackmailing, discrediting, or manipulating someone, typically for political purposes) collection suite Predator scooped up from its targets’ infected devices.
Numerous politicians, businesspersons, journalists in Greece were targeted by this malware; so did the country’s military leadership, as well as many in the judiciary. To make matters worse, thousands of citizens became “collateral damage” in all of this, through their regular, casual, work-mandated, and/or incidental contact with the main targets. All this, by order of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis – and his entire party condoned this.
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