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Russian surveillance software infiltrated European law enforcement agencies

Rank
Ran: 38h
Updated: 6d ago
Final
Outlets: 7
Regions: 1
Countries: 5
Languages: 5

Postimees Estonia · Estonian 28 Sept, 06:55 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Latviešu (2) · +3 languages

Read at Postimees

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Postimees, 28 Sept, 06:55 UTC.
Second country: Belgium, with Het Laatste Nieuws.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 28 Sept, 10:42 UTC.
Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

Europe 7 outlets · 5 countries · 100%

First movers

Postimees 28 Sept, 06:55 UTC
Het Laatste Nieuws +3h 47m
Digi24 +3h 48m
Onet +7h 39m
HotNews +9h 20m

Last to join

TVNET 29 Sept, 21:01 UTC
Delfi (LV) 29 Sept, 04:56 UTC
HotNews 28 Sept, 16:15 UTC
Onet 28 Sept, 14:33 UTC
Digi24 28 Sept, 10:43 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 7 outlets in 5 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Europe 5: Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Estonian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian.
Timeline: Earliest article Postimees, 28 Sept 2026, 06:55 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 07:00 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 21:01 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region International. Topic Technology. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by European police forces drop Russian software firm. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

28 Sept 2026 366 2.94 5 4 5 4 3.3

29 Sept 2026 220 5.75 7 5 2 1 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 07:00 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 21:01 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Europe 7 outlets

TVNET Latvia 29 Sept, 21:01 UTC
Latvijas tiesībsargi izmantojuši programmatūru, kas slepus izstrādāta Krievijā. Ko atklāj ASV izmeklēšana?
Delfi (LV) Latvia 29 Sept, 11:14 UTC
Policija apturējusi ar Krieviju saistītā uzņēmuma programmatūras izmantošanu
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- "Politico": par saiknēm ar Krieviju apsūdzēts uzņēmums piegādā programmatūru Eiropas tiesībaizsardzības iestādēm 29 Sept, 04:56 UTC
HotNews Romania 28 Sept, 16:15 UTC
Soft de criminalistică digitală dezvoltat de o firmă paravan din Rusia, folosit de DNA, DIICOT și polițiile din UE. Patronii, arestați în SUA
Onet Poland 28 Sept, 14:33 UTC
Rosyjska firma technologiczna przeniknęła do europejskich organów ścigania. W tle powiązania z FSB
Digi24 Romania 28 Sept, 10:43 UTC
Companie rusă de supraveghere tehnologică, inflitrată în instituții de aplicare a legii din Europa, inclusiv România (Politico)
Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium 28 Sept, 10:42 UTC
Russisch gelinkte opsporingssoftware belandde bij Europese politiediensten en EU-projecten
Postimees Estonia 28 Sept, 06:55 UTC
USA paljastas Venemaalt juhitud tehnoloogiafirma, mille tarkvara kasutasid Euroopa politseiasutused

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
28 Sept 2026	366	2.94	5	4	5	4	3.3
29 Sept 2026	220	5.75	7	5	2	1	3.3 → 4.0