Journalists from Independent Salvadoran News Site Targeted by Spyware

At least 22 journalists from the independent Salvadoran news site El Faro were targeted with telephone spyware, investigators announced, in one of the most extensive attacks yet discovered using the Pegasus software that human rights advocates say has been abused by governments around the world. The journalists were among at least 35 people in El Salvador whose iPhones were hacked with Pegasus between July 2020 and November 2021, according to an analysis by the Toronto-based Citizen Lab and other groups.