Facebook has sued the NSO Group for allegedly perpetrating a WhatsApp hack that targeted politicians and journalists in at least three different countries.
in a California federal court October 29 against the Israeli surveillance firm, NSO Group, for allegedly hacking WhatsApp, a popular messaging application. In the lawsuit, Facebook accused NSO Group of sending malware to approximately 1,400 phones and devices.
According to the complaint, the malware was"designed to infect the Target Devices for the purpose of conducting surveillance of specific WhatsApp users." Since the NSO Group could not break the decryption built into WhatsApp's programming, the malware accessed"messages and other communications after they were decrypted on Target Devices."
WhatsApp's usage of end-to-end encryption means that the company has no access to communications made through the app, with each message bearing its own digital lock and key. Users targeted by the NSO Group included"attorneys, journalists, human rights activists, political dissidents, diplomats, and other senior foreign government officials." Target users had WhatsApp numbers in Mexico, the Kingdom of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Believed to be known as Pegasus, the malware took advantage of a bug in the audio-calling feature of WhatsApp. When a device was called, Pegasus was installed, regardless of whether the phone was actually answered.A WhatsApp hack allegedly perpetrated by an Israeli surveillance group affected at least 1.400 users.Facebook and WhatsApp have requested an injunction against the NSO Group, forbidding them to access or attempt to access Facebook or WhatsApp.
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