Milan, 19 Feb (LaPresse) – The espionage against Luca Casarini, head of the Mediterranea Saving Humans mission, began in February 2024. This was announced by the NGO, which decided to publish the results of an analysis conducted with the collaboration of CitizenLab in Toronto. ‘The analysis of the phone in use by Luca Casarini, Italian citizen, founder and head of mission of Mediterranea SavingHumans, has revealed that in February 2024, therefore many months before the identification of the warm Graphite, an entity not yet identified, operated a software attack of a ‘sophisticated’ type, with an attempt to force Luca Casarini's accounts, and of which the Meta company has reported – reveals the NGO – The attack, The attack, which has been identified and on which the qualitative analyses are being carried out to identify the source (tracing), was probably carried out following a precise methodology, a protocol for the construction of what is classically defined as a ‘surveillance chain’, which has as its final outcome the passage from a ‘spyware’ to the more sophisticated military tool ‘Graphite’ The civil investigation, in this first phase, is focusing on the detection of two passages that concern the attempt to compromise the victim's profile dating back to February 2024 and started on the 8th of the same month'.
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