Facebook accuses Israel's NSO Group of exploiting U.S. servers to infect 100s of devices via WhatsApp

Facebook accuses Israeli surveillance and weaponized technology company NSO of exploiting servers located in the United States to launch attacks that infected hundreds of smartphones with spyware through WhatsApp.

Yes, that sentence is a lot to take in, and I get it. 2020 is complicated.

NSO reverse-engineered WhatsApp to gain "unauthorized access" to WhatsApp servers, which it commandeered to target 1,400 phones used by attorneys, journalists, human rights activists, government officials & others, Facebook said in a legal filing on Thursday in California.

- Ryan Gallagher (@rj_gallagher) April 24, 2020

NSO reverse-engineered WhatsApp to gain "unauthorized access" to WhatsApp servers, which it commandeered to target 1,400 phones used by attorneys, journalists, human rights activists, government officials & others, Facebook said in a legal filing on Thursday in California.

- Ryan Gallagher (@rj_gallagher) April 24, 2020

From reporting by Ryan Gallagher at Bloomberg News:

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Facebook Accuses NSO Group of Using U.S. Servers for Spying

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