Facebook is going to court.
The social media giant, which owns the messaging service WhatsApp, has filed a complaint against the Israeli tech company NSO Group for allegedly developing and deploying spyware on approximately 1,400 users’ smartphones via the messaging app. And here’s the scary thing: According to Facebook, the victims didn’t even have to click on anything for the spyware to take over their devices.
We first learned of this troubling attack in May of this year, with reports that all a bad actor had to do was call a person via WhatsApp to compromise their phone. Once installed, the software could read decrypted messages on a person’s device. Read more…
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