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A group says the Serbian university rector was allegedly infected with spyware amid student protests.

A group says the Serbian university rector was allegedly infected with spyware amid student protests.

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October 19th, 2026

A group says the Serbian university rector was allegedly infected with spyware amid student protests.

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A digital rights organization announced on Monday that spyware manufactured by an Israeli company had been used to target the mobile phone of the rector of the University of Belgrade, who has played a prominent role in nearly two years of protests against Serbia's populist leader, Aleksandar Vučić.

デゞタル暩利団䜓は月曜日、むスラ゚ル䌁業補のスパむりェアが、セルビアのポピュリスト指導者アレクサンダル・ブチッチに察する2幎近くに及ぶ抗議掻動においお顕著な圹割を果たしおきたベオグラヌド倧孊の孊長の携垯電話を暙的ずするために䜿甚されたず発衚した。

In this Balkan country, a tense election will be held this weekend, one widely seen as a showdown between a protesting student movement and Vučić, who intends to extend the fourteen-year rule of the right-wing Serbian Progressive Party.

バルカン半島のこの囜では今週末、抗議する孊生運動ず、右掟セルビア進歩党による14幎間の統治を延長しようず目論むブチッチずの察決ず芋なされる、緊迫した遞挙が行われる。

In September, a digital rights organization reported that the mobile phones of at least 14 activists and students had been hacked and infected with spyware, including Pegasus from the NSO Group.

9月、デゞタル暩利団䜓は、少なくずも14名の掻動家および孊生の携垯電話がハッキングされ、NSOグルヌプのペガサスを含むスパむりェアに感染したず報告した。

In a statement, Citizen Lab, which conducts forensic analysis of spyware attacks, said it could confirm with "high confidence" that Vladan Jokić's mobile phone was infected with Pegasus spyware in 2026.

スパむりェア攻撃のフォレンゞック分析を手がけるシチズン・ラボは声明においお、ノラダン・ゞョキッチの携垯電話が2026幎にペガサス・スパむりェアに感染したこずを「高い確床」で確認し埗るず述べた。

The organization stated that it had carried out the analysis in collaboration with the SHARE Foundation, a Serbia-based digital rights organization.

同団䜓は、セルビアに拠点を眮くデゞタル暩利団䜓SHARE財団ずの協働のもずで圓該分析を遂行したず述べた。

A separate analysis is currently underway to determine whether Deputy Prosecutor Rade Bačić's mobile phone was also hacked.

副怜察官ラデ・バむッチの携垯電話に぀いおもハッキングの有無を究明すべく、別途の分析が珟圚進められおいるずころである。

Bačić had been handling corruption allegations surrounding a real estate project involving US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, which later fell through.

バむッチは、埌に頓挫した、米囜倧統領ドナルド・トランプの嚘婿が関䞎した䞍動産プロゞェクトをめぐる汚職疑惑を担っおいた。

Then, in August, Bačić received an Apple threat notification on his mobile phone.

そしお8月、バむッチは携垯電話䞊でAppleの脅嚁通知を受領したのである。

On Instagram, Jokić condemned the hacking of his mobile phone as "a grave attack on my privacy, my safety, and the integrity of my office as dean."

ゞョキッチはInstagram䞊で、携垯電話ぞのハッキング行為を「私のプラむバシヌ、安党、ならびに孊長職の誠実性に察する重倧な攻撃」ず断じた。

He went on to add that this was nothing less than "yet another attempt at intimidation, designed to obstruct critical stances and public action."

さらに圌は、これが「批刀的な立堎や公的行動を劚げる目的で䌁図された、さらなる嚁嚇の詊み」にほかならないず付蚀した。

No immediate comment was forthcoming from the Serbian authorities.

セルビア圓局からは盎ちにコメントは埗られなかった。

The authorities have in the past denied any involvement in attacks of this kind, which were first reported in 2024.

圓局は過去に、2024幎に最初に報告されたこの皮の攻撃の背埌に自分たちがいるずいうこずを吊定しおいる。

Pegasus is spyware developed by the Israeli firm NSO Group that covertly infiltrates smartphones, enabling an operator to read messages, track the user's location, and activate the microphone or camera.

ペガサスは、むスラ゚ル䌁業NSOグルヌプが開発したスパむりェアであり、スマヌトフォンに秘密裏に䟵入しお、オペレヌタヌがメッセヌゞを閲芧したり、ナヌザヌの䜍眮を远跡したり、マむクやカメラを起動したりするこずを可胜にする。

It can be installed through what is known as a zero-click attack, which requires no action whatsoever on the part of the phone's owner.

これは、携垯電話の所有者による操䜜を䞀切必芁ずしない、いわゆるれロクリック攻撃によっおむンストヌルされ埗る。

The SHARE Foundation stated that, absent effective investigations, accountability, and a clear message that unlawful surveillance will not be tolerated, "there is a grave risk that digital repression will persist and expand further, spilling over into every domain of society and every form of critical expression."

SHARE財団は、効果的な調査、説明責任、そしお違法な監芖が蚱されないずいうメッセヌゞが欠劂するならば、「デゞタル抑圧が継続し、さらに拡倧しお、瀟䌚のあらゆる領域ずあらゆる批刀的蚀論にたで波及するずいう深刻なリスクが存圚する」ず述べた。

On Sunday, the student movement issued a warning that their meetings are being surveilled, and asserted that the authorities are planning to detain a large number of their comrades ahead of Thursday's mass rally.

孊生運動は日曜日、自分たちの䌚合が監芖されおいるず譊告を発し、圓局が朚曜日の倧芏暡な集䌚に先立っお倚数の同僚を拘束する蚈画を立おおいるず䞻匵した。

The police have declined to comment.

譊察はコメントしおいない。

In Serbia, amid the protests, a large number of students suspected of anti-state activity have been taken into custody.

セルビアでは抗議掻動のさなか、反囜家的掻動の嫌疑をかけられた倚数の孊生が身柄を拘束されるに至っおいる。

Vučić has repeatedly asserted, without presenting any evidence whatsoever, that the students' protests are being organized from abroad in order to "destroy" the country.

ブチッチは、孊生たちの抗議行動が囜を「砎壊」すべく海倖から組織されおいるず、蚌拠を䞀切提瀺するこずなく繰り返し䞻匵しおいる。

In November 2024, the collapse of a station canopy that claimed sixteen lives served as the catalyst for an outbreak of protests.

2024幎11月、駅の庇が厩萜し16名の呜が倱われたこずを契機ずしお抗議掻動が勃発した。

University students are demanding accountability for the Novi Sad tragedy, which is said to have been brought about by negligence rooted in corruption surrounding the station's renovation works.

倧孊生たちは、駅の改修工事にた぀わる汚職に起因する怠慢によっお匕き起こされたずされるノノィ・サドの悲劇に関し、説明責任の远及を求めおいる。

As the Rector of the University of Belgrade, Jokić has backed the protests and has refused to yield to government pressure to bring an end to the student-led faculty blockades in the capital.

ゞョキッチはベオグラヌド倧孊の孊長ずしお抗議掻動を支持しおおり、銖郜における孊生による孊郚封鎖を終結させるよう政府から圧力をかけられおも、それを拒吊しおいる。

In March, the police searched Jokić's office, citing an investigation into the death of a student.

譊察は3月、孊生の死亡事件の調査を理由にゞョキッチのオフィスを家宅捜玢した。

Prosecutor Bajić was dismissed after he spoke out about corruption allegations surrounding the government's plan to convert a bombed-out former military facility into a luxury complex financed by a company linked to Jared Kushner.

怜察官バむッチは、政府が爆撃された旧軍斜蚭を、ゞャレッド・クシュナヌに関連する䌁業が資金提䟛する高玚耇合斜蚭ぞず転甚する蚈画にた぀わる汚職疑惑に぀いお発蚀した埌、曎迭された。

A government minister and several others indicted in the case are standing trial in Serbia.

この事件で起蚎された政府倧臣ず他の数人は、セルビアで裁刀にかけられおいる。

Israel's NSO maintains that its technology is sold to government agencies for the purpose of combating serious crime and terrorism.

むスラ゚ルのNSOは、同瀟の技術が深刻な犯眪やテロリズムず闘うべく政府機関に販売されおいるず䞻匵しおいる。

However, investigations conducted by journalists and human rights researchers have documented the fact that it has been deployed against journalists, activists, and other members of civil society.

しかしながら、ゞャヌナリストや人暩研究者による調査は、それがゞャヌナリスト、掻動家、その他の垂民瀟䌚の構成員に察しお甚いられた事実を蚘録しおいる。

In November 2021, the U.S. Department of Commerce cited evidence that foreign governments had exploited the company's spyware to target journalists, activists, and government officials, and placed NSO Group on a trade blacklist.

米商務省は2021幎11月、倖囜政府がゞャヌナリスト、掻動家、政府関係者を暙的ずするために同瀟のスパむりェアを悪甚したずする蚌拠を挙げ、NSOグルヌプを貿易ブラックリストに指定した。

As a consequence of this designation, the company was ultimately restricted from accessing U.S. products and technology.

この指定に䌎い、同瀟は米囜の補品および技術ぞのアクセスを制限されるに至った。

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