The latest exploit -- which impacts Android devices and Apple's iPhones, among others -- was discovered earlier this month.
The latest exploit — which impacts Android devices and Apple’s iPhones, among others — was discovered earlier this month.
The FT cited a spyware dealer as saying the tool was developed by a shadowy Israel-based firm called the NSO Group, which has been accused of helping governments from the Middle East to Mexico snoop on activists and journalists. Security researchers said the malicious code bore similarities to other tech developed by the firm, according to The New York Times.
The firm did not comment on the number of users affected or who targeted them, and said it had reported the matter to US authorities. The Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, said in a tweet it believed an attacker tried to target a human rights lawyer as recently as Sunday using this flaw, but was blocked by WhatsApp.
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