The Italian government said in a press release on Wednesday that WhatsApp revealed a spyware campaign and used spyware made by Paragon Solutions to target people in several European countries.

The government, led by far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, denied being the mastermind behind Italian citizen Francesco Cancellato, a journalist at the news website fanpage.it Luca Casarini, and Luca Casarini is a radical who saves humanity for the Mediterranean, a non-governmental person who helps immigrants.

The government said in a press release that its defensive cybersecurity group, the la cybersicurezeale nazionale (ACN - or the National Cybersecurity Agency) had contacted WhatsApp and its law firm, which told authorities that there were seven mobile phone users in Italy. There are seven mobile phone users in Italy targeted in spyware activities. WhatsApp refuses to provide targeted identities based on privacy concerns, the government statement said.

WhatsApp also said that it is based on the Italian government's phone code, based on the Italian government's phone code, based on the phone code statement of its country.

WhatsApp did not immediately respond to a request for comment, asking for confirmation of Italy's target number, countries mentioned by the Italian government and other claims attributed by the Italian government to WhatsApp.

WhatsApp said it undermined a spyware campaign targeting about 90 users in more than two dozen countries, including several in Europe, days after the Italian government's statement arrived.

As of Wednesday, Cancellato, Casarini and Sweden-based Libyan activist Husam El Gomati criticized the Italian and Libyan governments' activities against Mediterranean immigration, and they stood up to say they were targets of the spyware campaign.

Paragon told TechCrunch on Tuesday that it sold its surveillance technology to the U.S. government and other unspecified "allies."

The company also said that "it requires all users to agree to the terms and conditions that explicitly prohibit illegal targeting of journalists and other civil society figures", adding that it has a "zero tolerance policy" to prevent such targets. The spyware maker said it would "terminate our relationship with any customer" against its terms of service.

Fleming and Paragon have not responded to this article's request for comment, asking for confirmation or denial of whether the country mentioned by the Italian government is indeed a Paragon customer.

The Italian ACN and the Prime Minister's Office did not respond to requests for comment.