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Montevideo, December 22nd 2024 - 15:59 UTC

Tag: smarthphone spyware

  • Wednesday, May 15th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

    WhatsApp calls on users to upgrade the app because of a sophisticated security breach

    
Financial Times cited a spyware dealer saying that the tool was developed by a shadowy Israel-based firm called NSO Group

    WhatsApp on Tuesday encouraged its users to upgrade the app to plug a security breach that allowed sophisticated attackers to sneak spyware into phones, in the latest trouble for its parent Facebook. The vulnerability - first reported by the Financial Times - allowed hackers to insert malicious software on phones by calling the target using the app, which is used by 1.5 billion people around the world.