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WhatsApp breach might have targeted human rights groups
Suspicion falls on Israeli company as users urged to update messaging app
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/whatsapp-spyware-infect-call-1.5134939
Publisher: CBC
Date Written: 14/05/2019
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
The messaging app WhatsApp had a security breach that installed surveillance software on users' phones. It seems to have targeted several people in human rights groups who report getting phone calls from strange numbers at odd times.
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WhatsApp said on Tuesday that a security breach on its messaging app had signs of coming from a government using surveillance technology developed by a private company, and it may have targeted human rights groups....
The Financial Times initially reported on the WhatsApp vulnerability that allowed attackers to inject spyware on phones via the app's voice-calling function.
WhatsApp told human rights groups it believed the spyware was developed by Israeli cyber surveillance company NSO Group, best known for its mobile hacking tools, said Eva Galperin, the director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit.
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