Exiled Russian journalist claims “European state” hacked her iPhone with Pegasus spyware

The co-founder and publisher of Meduza, a news outlet outlawed in Russia for its independent reporting and stance on the war in Ukraine, believes that a country in the European Union was behind the hacking of her iPhone with military-grade spyware. Galina Timchenko, who has been declared "undesirable" by the Kremlin and lives in exile in Europe, is thought to have joined a long line of journalists to have been spied upon by the notorious Pegasus spyware, developed by Israel's controversial NSO