This Citizen Lab research note reveals newly-discovered infection attempts using NSO Group’s government-exclusive Pegasus spyware. The targets were Karla Micheel Salas and David Peña, Mexican lawyers and human rights defenders representing the families of Nadia Vera, Yesenia Quiroz Alfaro, and Mile Virginia Martin. Vera was a government critic and women’s rights advocate who was slain in July 2015 along with journalist Rubén Espinosa, Alejandra Negrete, Alfaro, and Martín in the Narvarte neighbourhood of Mexico City.
Read a blog post by Ron Deibert.
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$1 Billion Surveillance Company’s Tools ‘Spied On Mexico Mass Murder Lawyers’ (Forbes)
Slain activist’s lawyers latest known targets of spyware sold to Mexican government (CBC)
High-profile lawyers targeted in Mexico spyware scandal (ABC)
Mexican spyware campaign targeted lawyers in high-profiles murder case (The Hill)
Mexico spying scandal: human rights lawyers investigating murders targeted (The Guardian)
