El Salvador journalists hacked with Pegasus spyware: report
13 January 2022 |
11:48 am
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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