In December 2025, TechCrunch reported that SIO was behind a set of malicious Android apps that masqueraded as WhatsApp and ...

The activity begins with the attackers distributing malicious VBS files via WhatsApp messages that, when executed, create ...

Meta has been forced to fix a ‘vulnerability’ which could lead to users being targeted by hackers. WhatsApp’s parent company has shared a security advisory after discovering the issue on Friday. It ...

An official with Meta Platforms' META.O popular WhatsApp chat service said Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions had targeted scores of its users, including journalists and members of civil ...

Israel's NSO Group was handed a $168 million penalty by a federal jury in California on Tuesday for hijacking the servers of WhatsApp in order to hack users of the Meta-owned chat platform on behalf ...

The fallout continues from the recent WhatsApp hacking campaign (by a still-unconfirmed entity) that targeted nearly 100 journalists and activists. Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that a collection of ...

You have been warned. A new attack lets hackers “gain full access in WhatsApp." This uses social engineering to target phone numbers and hack accounts, "without ...

A U.S. judge has ruled that Israeli spyware maker NSO Group breached hacking laws by using WhatsApp to infect devices with its Pegasus spyware. In a historic ruling on Friday, a Northern California ...

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