The phone of the University of Belgrade rector, Vladan Djokic, was infected in 2026 with Pegasus spyware from the NSO Group, according to a report by the SHARE Foundation reported by CyberScoop.

Djokic is a prominent figure in the country’s student protest movement, and Rade Bajic, a lawyer with Serbia’s Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, was also targeted, according to the research.