WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware
by Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington from on (#6TZ1G)
Messaging app said it had high confidence' some users were targeted and possibly compromised' by Paragon Solutions spyware
Nearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Meta, were targeted by spyware owned by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli maker of hacking software, the company alleged on Friday.
The journalists and other civil society members were being alerted of a possible breach of their devices, with WhatsApp telling the Guardian it had high confidence" that the 90 users in question had been targeted and possibly compromised".
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