El Salvador journalists sue Israeli Pegasus spyware maker in US court

 Journalists from an investigative news outlet in El Salvador sued NSO Group in United States federal court Wednesday after the Israeli firm’s powerful Pegasus spyware was detected on their iPhones.

In January, the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, an internet watchdog, reported that dozens of journalists and human rights defenders in El Salvador had their cellphones repeatedly hacked with the spyware.
Among them were journalists at the El Faro news site.
These spyware attacks were an attempt to silence our sources and deter us from doing journalism, Carlos Dada, El Faro’s co-founder and director, said in a statement released by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of the El Faro journalists.
We are filing this lawsuit to defend our right to investigate and report...    read more....