Meta-owned WhatsApp on Friday said it disrupted a campaign that involved the use of spyware to target journalists and civil society members.
The campaign, which targeted around 90 members, involved the use of spyware from an Israeli company known as Paragon Solutions. The attackers were neutralized in December 2024.
In a statement to The Guardian, the encrypted messaging app said it has reached
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malvertising campaign that’s targeting Microsoft advertisers with bogus Google ads that aim to take them to phishing pages that are capable of harvesting their credentials.
“These malicious ads, appearing on Google Search, are designed to steal the login information of users trying to access Microsoft’s advertising platform,” Jérôme Segura, senior
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Connecticut’s Community Health Center Inc. and California’s NorthBay Healthcare Corporation reported intrusions that exposed the data of hundreds of thousands of patients.
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Nine application security toolmakers band together to fork the popular Semgrep code-scanning project, touching off a controversy over access to features and fairness.
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Meta Confirms Zero-Click WhatsApp Spyware Attack Targeting 90 Journalists, Activists
/in General NewsMeta-owned WhatsApp on Friday said it disrupted a campaign that involved the use of spyware to target journalists and civil society members.
The campaign, which targeted around 90 members, involved the use of spyware from an Israeli company known as Paragon Solutions. The attackers were neutralized in December 2024.
In a statement to The Guardian, the encrypted messaging app said it has reached
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