Inside the opposition’s crushing defeat against Viktor Orbán
The chaos was even bigger inside the campaign than it looked from the outside. Direkt36 has investigated how the opposition, which led in the polls last fall, l...
The attorney became a Pegasus target when one of Hungary’s most notorious murder cases took a turn
Ilona Patócs is not the first lawyer to be targeted, despite the fact that protecting client communication is an essential part of her job, Direkt36 has learne...
Putin’s hackers gained full access to Hungary’s foreign ministry networks, the Orbán government has been unable to stop them
Russian state actors hacked into the Hungarian Foreign Ministry's computer network compromising internal correspondence and even a secure network that transmits...
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 ...