ADADIn a statement, a company spokesman said: “NSO is deeply troubled by the allegations in the Amnesty International letter. NSO software was instrumental in the capture of Mexican cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. In the Radi case, Amnesty said it discovered the same type of “network injection” attacks it had documented against another Moroccan journalist, Maati Monjib, in 2019. “It’s a deterrent if they know that I’m being bugged.”Other Moroccan journalists have reported having their cellphones infected with spyware when they clicked on a link. “It’s like the coronavirus.”Amnesty’s report was released to Forbidden Stories, an international consortium of journalists, including The Post, which investigates threats and violence against journalists.

Source: Washington Post June 21, 2020 22:02 UTC