On Tuesday, a full nine months after the first revelations of a spyware scandal that has rocked Greece, authorities in Athens raided the offices of Intellexa, the owner of Predator spyware, and five other connected companies. It was the first real chink in Intellexa’s armour and came after a series of reports in the weekly newspaper Documento that its spyware had been used to snoop on all manner of Greek VIPs – politicians, journalists, businesspeople, and even senior military officers. The raids come less than a month after a European Parliament inquiry on “Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware” (PEGA) published…

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