{"id":10428,"date":"2026-10-20T14:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/pegasus-spyware-infection-confirmed-on-serbian-university-rectors-iphone-days-before-election\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T14:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:13:13","slug":"pegasus-spyware-infection-confirmed-on-serbian-university-rectors-iphone-days-before-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/pegasus-spyware-infection-confirmed-on-serbian-university-rectors-iphone-days-before-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegasus Spyware Infection Confirmed on Serbian University Rector&#8217;s iPhone Days Before Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe iPhone of Vladan \u0110oki\u0107, rector of the University of Belgrade and a prominent supporter of Serbia&#8217;s student protest movement, was infected with NSO Group&#8217;s Pegasus spyware in 2026, the\u00a0Citizen Lab said\u00a0on October 19.<\/p>\n<p>The finding came six days before Serbia&#8217;s October 25 snap parliamentary election. The infection used a zero-click exploit, meaning \u0110oki\u0107 did not have to tap a link or\u00a0The iPhone of Vladan \u0110oki\u0107, rector of the University of Belgrade and a prominent supporter of Serbia&#8217;s student protest movement, was infected with NSO Group&#8217;s Pegasus spyware in 2026, the\u00a0Citizen Lab said\u00a0on October 19.<\/p>\n<p>The finding came six days before Serbia&#8217;s October 25 snap parliamentary election. The infection used a zero-click exploit, meaning \u0110oki\u0107 did not have to tap a link or\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe iPhone of Vladan \u0110oki\u0107, rector of the University of Belgrade and a prominent supporter of Serbia&#8217;s student protest movement, was infected with NSO Group&#8217;s Pegasus spyware in 2026, the\u00a0Citizen Lab said\u00a0on October 19. The finding came six days before Serbia&#8217;s October 25 snap parliamentary election. The infection used a zero-click exploit, meaning \u0110oki\u0107 did&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/pegasus-spyware-infection-confirmed-on-serbian-university-rectors-iphone-days-before-election\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pegasus Spyware Infection Confirmed on Serbian University Rector&#8217;s iPhone Days Before Election<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}