Apple Company said that it filed a lawsuit against the Israeli NSO Group, manufacturer of Pegasus spyware which has been used by many countries to spy on activists, including Bahrain and the Emirates.

Senior Research Fellow at Citizen Lab, Bill Marczak said the lab is conducting an additional investigation to determine the location where the suspicious messages are being used, which contained spyware developed by the Israeli NSO Group.

Freedom House listed Bahrain in its annual Freedom on the Net report for 2016 among the 26 “Not Free" countries that implement tight censorship on online content.

Bahrain Watch announced it identified a very recent targeted digital attack by an anonymous group on a number of Bahraini Activists living outside Bahrain.

Information obtained from Hacking Team, an Italian spyware manufacturer, revealed that Bahrain recently purchased spyware from the company and that the latest maintenance of these spyware programs took place during 2015.