El Salvador - Bukele cybersecurity tactics raise specter of US sanctions

Several spyware & surveillance software tools were contracted by the police during Nayib Bukele’s administration.

Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s police and security forces are deploying advanced surveillance software tools to clamp down on the nation’s chronic gang problem and pave the way for foreign investors, some of whom want to build Bitcoin and blockchain-related companies.

Israeli national Yaniv Zangilevitch bought NSO spyware and supplied it to Bukele’s…