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Francesco Nicodemo Targeted by Paragon Spyware in Italy

First seen 2 Dec 2025, 18:33 UTC • Techcrunch

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Francesco Nicodemo, a political communications strategist in Italy, has been identified as a target of the Paragon spyware surveillance campaign. He disclosed that he had been under surveillance for 10 months before going public, questioning the motives behind such sophisticated digital espionage against a private citizen.

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10 entities, 13 inferred relationships (STIX 2.1).

Technique (2)

Malware
Phishing

Organization (1)

Democratic Party

Vulnerability (1)

CVE-2025-12480

Indicator (1)

fanpage.it

Malware (1)

Paragon Graphite

Affected Platform (3)

Android
IPhone
WhatsApp

Tool (1)

Paragon

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Paragon Graphite exploits CVE-2025-12480
Paragon exploits CVE-2025-12480
Paragon Graphite communicates with fanpage.it
CVE-2025-12480 targets Android
CVE-2025-12480 targets IPhone
CVE-2025-12480 targets WhatsApp
Paragon Graphite targets Democratic Party
Malware targets Android
Malware targets IPhone
Malware targets WhatsApp
Phishing targets Android
Phishing targets IPhone
Phishing targets WhatsApp

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Francesco Nicodemo Targeted by Paragon Spyware in Italy

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