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14 May 2019, 6:37 pm
The Israeli spyware allegedly behind the WhatsApp hack.
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Billions of people are being urged to update their WhatsApp messaging app in the wake of news that a seemingly innocuous voice call could allow hackers access to their phone.
The security vulnerability allowed hackers to install surveillance software, even if a user didn’t answer the call, the Financial Times reported. https://globalnews.ca/news/5275205/nso- ... sapp-hack/
The security vulnerability allowed hackers to install surveillance software, even if a user didn’t answer the call, the Financial Times reported. https://globalnews.ca/news/5275205/nso- ... sapp-hack/
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The group is known for creating the malware called Pegasus, which allows hackers to access messages, location services, wifi passwords and other data.
“It’s a very advanced spyware,” said Iman Sharafaldin, a cybersecurity researcher at the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity in New Brunswick.
“Your phone will become a permanent spy in your life, even if you disable the deepest sleep mode. It permanently records and it hijacks your camera, it hijacks your microphone and permanently spies on you.” https://globalnews.ca/news/5275205/nso- ... sapp-hack/
“It’s a very advanced spyware,” said Iman Sharafaldin, a cybersecurity researcher at the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity in New Brunswick.
“Your phone will become a permanent spy in your life, even if you disable the deepest sleep mode. It permanently records and it hijacks your camera, it hijacks your microphone and permanently spies on you.” https://globalnews.ca/news/5275205/nso- ... sapp-hack/
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Human rights agencies targeted
WhatsApp said it was “deeply concerned about the abuse” of such surveillance technologies and that it believed human rights activists may have been the targets.
“We’re working with human rights groups on learning as much as we can about who may have been impacted from their community. That’s really where our highest concern is,” a company spokesman said.
Toronto-based Citizen Lab research shows multiple previous instances of Pegasus software being used by bad actors, saying there is “empirical evidence that NSO Group’s technology has been used abusively and illegally to spy on civil society, human rights defenders and journalists, among other targets.” https://globalnews.ca/news/5275205/nso- ... sapp-hack/
WhatsApp said it was “deeply concerned about the abuse” of such surveillance technologies and that it believed human rights activists may have been the targets.
“We’re working with human rights groups on learning as much as we can about who may have been impacted from their community. That’s really where our highest concern is,” a company spokesman said.
Toronto-based Citizen Lab research shows multiple previous instances of Pegasus software being used by bad actors, saying there is “empirical evidence that NSO Group’s technology has been used abusively and illegally to spy on civil society, human rights defenders and journalists, among other targets.” https://globalnews.ca/news/5275205/nso- ... sapp-hack/
Switching the phone off is ineffective in disabling spy functions such as locating your, err, location.
You need to take the battery out.
14 May 2019, 6:48 pm
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