Report: Dozens of El Salvador journalists, activists hacked
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An internet watchdog says dozens of journalists and human rights defenders in El Salvador had their cellphones repeatedly hacked with sophisticated spyware over the past year and a half. The
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An internet watchdog says dozens of journalists and human rights defenders in El Salvador had their cellphones repeatedly hacked with sophisticated spyware over the past year and a half. The
A cyber watchdog report found the phones of at least 35 journalists and activists in the Latin American country were infected with the controversial Pegasus spyware.
Citizen Lab finds that hacking of 35 journalists and civil society activists coincided with their investigations into allegations that President Nayib Bukele was negotiating a pact with gangs
About 35 journalists and activists in El Salvador were spied on via phone hacking, according to a new report published Wednesday by El Faro and The Citizen Lab in Toronto, Canada, and the digital rights organization Access Now. About 22 of those affected are employees of El Faro. El Faro, founde…
Watchdog says NSO Group's Pegasus software found on phones which were then surveilled using local infrastructure; government denies involvement despite circumstantial evidence
Dozens of journalists and human rights defenders in El Salvador had their cellphones repeatedly hacked with sophisticated spyware over the past year and a half, an internet watchdog said Wednesday.
An internet watchdog said an operator of the Israeli firm NSO Group's Pegasus was working almost exclusively in El Salvador in early 2020. El Salvador government denied using the sophisticated spyware.
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