A new report shows that the Mexican government utilized advanced software to spy on activists, journalists, and anti-graft groups.

The software was deployed as these groups – journalists, activists, and the like – looked into some of the most notorious cases from corruption to abuse of power. The targets received SMS messages with links sending them to sites that seemed trustworthy but ended up being malicious, installing malware on the phones.

An investigation by “the press freedom organization Article 19 and Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto”.

The Guardian reports: