WhatsApp, used by millions of people around the world, says its users were hacked by the Paragon Solutions spyware company.

WhatsApp originally filed the suit in 2019, and investigations have found that Pegasus has been used to hack phones belonging to groups like activists, journalists, and government officials.

Once Pegasus is installed on a phone it gives the owner of the hack absolute control. It can execute commands and transfer any data — including passwords, contact lists, calendar events ...

Pegasus can read encrypted messages stored on ... engineered and/or decompiled the WhatsApp software” in order to hack phones, but had raised the possibility that it did so before agreeing ...

The government on Wednesday said personal data of 20 WhatsApp users out of the 121 users targeted using Pegasus spyware may have been accessed by the attacker. Facebook-owned Whatsapp had said ...

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Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp messenger service said it disrupted a hacking campaign linked to Israeli spyware firm ...