WhatsApp Says It Blocked Pegasus Spyware Campaign Linked to NSO
WhatsApp says it has disrupted new spyware related activity linked to NSO Group, the Israeli surveillance company behind Pegasus, and is now asking a US federal court to hold the firm in contempt of a permanent injunction.
The new action follows a major legal win for WhatsApp and parent company Meta in their long running case against NSO. The court had already barred NSO from targeting WhatsApp or its users after finding that the company violated federal and state hacking laws in connection with a 2019 attack on roughly 1,400 users.
This time, WhatsApp says the activity did not rely on a unknown WhatsApp vulnerability. The company said it investigated user reports and found spear phishing efforts that tried to push people toward malicious external websites. In plain terms, the aim was to get a person to click a link outside WhatsApp, a method similar to earlier one...
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