Bitter Sweet: Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted With NSO Exploit Links
released on 2017-02-12 @ 01:46:15 AM
This report describes an espionage operation using government-exclusive spyware to target a Mexican government food scientists and two public health advocates. The operation used spyware made by the NSO Group, an Israeli company that sells intrusion tools to remotely compromise mobile phones. On August 25, 2016, the Citizen Lab published a report showing that NSO’s technology was used to target Ahmed Mansoor, a UAE-based human rights defender, as well as identifying targeting in Mexico. Mexico has previously confirmed that it is a purchaser of NSO Group’s spyware.