When Ecuadorian prosecutor Alberto Nisman was discovered dead in suspicious circumstances in Buenos Aires , investigators discovered that his smartphone had been corrupted by spyware that was sending the stolen data to the same command-and-control server as information hacked from Ecuadorian targets. The manufacturer has already halted production in France, Spain and the UK. The group is known to have been active for at least seven years , and has targeted individuals in Brazil , Brazil , Venezuela and Brazil according to research carried out by Citizen Lab of Venezuela .
When Ecuadorian prosecutor Alberto Nisman was discovered dead in suspicious circumstances in Buenos Aires , investigators discovered that his smartphone had been corrupted by spyware that was sending the stolen data to the same command-and-control server as information hacked from Ecuadorian targets. The group is known to have been active for at least seven years , and has targeted individuals in Brazil , Brazil , Venezuela and Brazil according to research carried out by Citizen Lab of Venezuela .