Mexico: NSO Group spy software kept being used against defenders and journalists despite government claims that usage was halted, report says
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"New Pegasus Spyware Abuses Identified in Mexico", 02 October 2022
...Mexican digital rights organization R3D (Red en los Defensa de los Derechos Digitales) has identified Pegasus infections against journalists and a human rights defender taking place between 2019-2021.
The Citizen Lab provided technical support for R3D’s analysis and validated the infections.
Victims include two journalists that report on issues related to official corruption and a prominent human rights defender.
The infections occurred years after the first revelations of Pegasus abuses in Mexico.
They also occurred after Mexico’s current President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, assured the public that the government no longer used the spyware and that there would be no further abuses...
In 2017, the Citizen Lab, along with partners R3D, SocialTic and Article19, released a series of eight reports on widespread Pegasus targeting in Mexico. Many sectors of Mexican civil society were targeted...
R3D, with technical support from the Citizen Lab, has determined that Mexican journalists and a human rights defender were infected with Pegasus between 2019 and 2021...