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One day in May 2017 after the investigative journalist Javier Cárdenas was assassinated in Mexico, two of his colleagues at the Ríodoce newspaper began receiving text messages claiming to have information about the killer. The texts sent to Andrés Villarreal and Ismael Bojórquez, Ríodoce’s director, included links promising evidence that would prove a Mexican drug cartel was behind Cárdenas’ death. But the messages in fact were a surreptitious attempt by a Mexican government-linked organization to hack the journalists’ phones with Pegasus, a hacking tool that would have allowed operators to monitor their text messages, pictures, location and covertly activate the phones’ microphone and camera. Neither man clicked the links, suspicious that public officials were somehow behind the ruse. Researchers later confirmed their hunch, according to the New York Times. “I believe they wanted to search our conversations and messages for clues to the murder of Javier, but we are absolutely against […]

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