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NSO sued in US for supplying Pegasus spyware to surveil Salvadoran journalists

By Jenn Brice and Mike Swift
  • 01 Dec 2022 00:27
  • 01 Dec 2022 01:33
NSO Group Technologies violated a key US anti-hacking law when it deployed its Pegasus spyware to rights-abusing governments, a group of journalists who worked for a news organization in El Salvador said in a complaint filed today in federal court in Northern California. 
The Pegasus software is “a particularly sophisticated

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Jenn Brice

Reporter


Jenn is a data privacy and security reporter based in San Francisco. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Virginia. Before joining MLex, she edited UVA’s independent student newspaper and interned at Morning Brew, where she contributed to emerging tech and marketing newsletters.

Mike Swift

Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent


Mike Swift is an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of covering data, privacy and cybersecurity regulatory news for more than a decade. As the Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent for MLex, in addition to reporting, he coordinates MLex’s worldwide coverage in the practice area. Formerly chief Internet reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and SiliconValley.com, Mike has covered Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter and other tech companies and has closely tracked technology and regulatory trends in Silicon Valley. He has wide ranging expertise from the business of professional sports to computer-assisted reporting. A former John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, he is a graduate of Colby College.

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