Former Hungarian ambassador to China was targeted with Pegasus – shortly before becoming senior advisor to Orbán
Cecília Szilas is not the first high-ranking Hungarian official who was targeted with the Pegasus spyware. Her phone was added to the list during her stint at ...
Spies, business deals and criminals. How Orbán favors Russian interests instead of Western ones
In the past 12 years, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government has gotten into a situation many times, when they had to decide between the interests of Weste...
Hungarian president’s closest bodyguards targeted with Pegasus spyware
Targeting the president’s bodyguards may have been related to the internal struggle within the security agencies, which intensified after the Counter Terroris...
Hungarian intel officer involved in spyware operations appears on Pegasus list
The telephone number of an intelligence officer at the Special Service for National Security (SSNS), which conducts secret surveillance and interceptions, also ...
In Israel, Pegasus was developed to counter terrorism. In Hungary, a top counter-terrorism official became its target
Former deputy head of Hungary’s Counter Terrorism Centre Zsolt Bodnár was selected for targeting with the Israeli spyware. Direkt36 found out that when this ...
Orbán’s government tried to hide sensitive information on €1.5B Chinese university project
Although Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government published its plans for the taxpayer funded Fudan Hungary University, it censored all politically sensitive...
He has been uncovering the lavish lifestyle of Viktor Orbán’s circles. This summer, he was surveilled with Pegasus spyware
Photographer-journalist Dániel Németh has spent years investigating and documenting the luxury lifestyle of Hungary’s ruling elite, following them with his ...
Anti-Orbán news site’s publisher came under surveillance when his contract with an opposition party was revealed
Páva's smartphone was hacked with the cyberweapon developed by Israeli company NSO on March 16, the very day when it became public information that opposition ...
“A story like out of a spy movie,” personal reports by two surveilled Direkt36 journalists
Two Hungarian journalists Szabolcs Panyi and András Szabó share their personal reports of how it felt to find out they were surveilled through their mobile ph...
Hungarian journalist reporting on corruption surveilled with Pegasus for months
During her surveillance, Brigitta Csikász, one of Hungary’s most experienced crime reporters, wrote about the misuse of EU funds among other topics. Csikász...