Malware Hunter Finds Spyware Used Against Dead Argentine Prosecutor

On January 18 of this year, Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his apartment under mysterious circumstances. The next day, he had been scheduled to appear before the country’s Congress to deliver what was bound to be an incendiary testimony, accusing the current president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, of trying to cover up Iran’s alleged involvement in the a bloody bombing in Buenos Aires in 1994.

“I might get out of this dead," he said the day before.

As it turns out, Nisman had good reason to be paranoid. In fact, someone had been spying on his cellphone for six weeks, using surveillance software that was capable of listening in on calls, reading messages, and capturing images of his screen, as revealed by Morgan Marquis-Boire, the director of security at First Look Media and a security researcher who has been chasing government-made hacking tools across the globe for years.>>> [link to motherboard.vice.com]