Spyware tools have been discovered on the phones of politicians, journalists, and activists on numerous occasions over the past decade. This has prompted worries regarding the lack of protections in the tech industry and an unprecedented expansion of spyware technologies.
Meta’s WhatsApp recently stated that it has detected a hacking campaign aimed at roughly ninety users, the majority of whom were journalists and civil society activists from two dozen countries.
According to a WhatsApp representative, the attack was carried out by the Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions, which is now controlled by the Florida-based private equity firm AE Industrial Partners.
Graphite, Paragon’s spyware, infiltrated WhatsApp groups by sending them a malicious PDF attachment. It can access and read messages from encrypted apps such as WhatsApp and Signal without the user’s knowledge.
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