Spyware from Israeli firm Candiru has been used to target journalists across the Middle East, according to reports. The Candiru spyware was reportedly used to take advantage of the Chrome zero-day vulnerability in March of this year, to target journalists and other victims from Lebanon, Palestine, Turkey and Yemen, according to the Czech antivirus and cyber security company Avast. Avast said last week that it had “recently” detected use of Candiru and thus identified a flaw in the Google browser. Avast communicated the flaw on 1 July to Google, who fixed it three days later. Avast said the Chr…