Citizen Lab report reveals how Mexican government used advanced spyware tools purchased from the NSO Group to target the country’s most prominent human rights lawyers, anti-corruption activists, and journalists. The surveillance tool in question is the infamous mobile spyware ” that was also used in targeted cyber attacks against human rights activists in the United Arab Emirates last year. A majority of the infection attempts on victims were recorded under two separate events: in August 2015 and between April 2016. The report asserts that all evidence points towards the Mexican government which itself is behind the cyber espionage.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/06/mexican-spyware-malware.html