Judge dismisses spyware case brought by Salvadoran journalists targeted with Pegasus

A U.S. federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by El Faro journalists who alleged their phones were infected with NSO Group's Pegasus zero‑click spyware—deployed at least 226 times between June 2020 and November 2021. Plaintiffs argued attacks leveraged compromised California infrastructure and sought deletion of collected data and disclosure of the client; the Knight First Amendment Institute said it plans to appeal the decision.