WhatsApp claims that 100 journalists and activists were the targets of Israeli-made spyware
WhatsApp has claimed that some users were “possibly compromised” by spyware, according to a report by The Guardian. The Meta-owned messaging app went on to allege that nearly 100 journalists and activists were targeted in the attack. Additionally, the platform says it has “high confidence” that the Graphite spyware came from Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel that was recently acquired by a US investment firm. <br /> Hacking experts allege that this was a “zero-click” attack, meaning that the targeted users wouldn’t have had to click on a nefarious link to get infected. This is a similar method to another large-scale WhatsApp hack, in which spyware called Pegasus infected over 1,400 devices. Once a device is infected by something like Pegasus or Graphite, t [...]
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