El Salvador - Surveillance of journalists and civil society

A new report details how specific journalists and activists were targeted by spyware.

Citizen Lab published a report identifying 35 journalists and civil society activists in El Salvador who have spyware on their phones. The cybersecurity research group linked the Spyware to Circles, an operation that runs in parallel to NSO, and named the client targeting the Salvadorans “Torogoz”. Occam’s Razor says the Bukele government is the one beh…