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WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware

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Written by Stephanie Kirchgaessner | The Guardian Stephanie Kirchgaessner | The Guardian
Published: 31 January 2025 31 January 2025

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 today.

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 users in question had been targeted and “possibly compromised”.

 

Experts said the targeting was a “zero-click” attack, which means targets would not have had to click on any malicious links to be infected.

Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/31/whatsapp-israel-spyware

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