Report: Dozens of El Salvador Journalists, Activists Hacked

Report: Dozens of El Salvador Journalists, Activists Hacked
A smartphone with the website of Israel's NSO Group, which features 'Pegasus' spyware, is displayed in Paris on July 21, 2021. Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images
The Associated Press
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MEXICO CITY—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.

Reporting on its latest findings about use of the Israeli firm NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said it had identified a Pegasus operator working almost exclusively in El Salvador in early 2020.