Reports say Hackers have installed surveillance software on phones and other devices using a major vulnerability in messaging app ‘WhatsApp’.
WhatsApp owned by Facebook, said the attack targeted a “select number” of users and planned by an advanced cyber-actor.
The financial times stated that the surveillance software involved was developed by Israeli firm NSO Group.
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Facebook first discovered the flaw in WhatsApp earlier in May and has called on its 1.5 billion users to update their apps as a warning.
WhatsApp is a “secure” communications app as messages are end-to-end encrypted, to be displayed in a legible form on the sender or recipient’s device.
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