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Technology giants, he said, must do more to protect human rights and must avoid attacking one another. ''Backdoors' or other security openings simply present too high a danger,' he said. In an op-ed-slash-statement provided to The Washington Post, Will Cathcart, head of WhatsApp, said the affair highlights why tech companies should not be required to intentionally weaken their security systems.

It's 2019 and a WhatsApp call can hack a phone: Zero-day exploit infects mobes with spyware READ MORE That gave the NSO Group a foothold on the handhelds, enough to start snooping on people's activities, it is claimed.

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Specifically, the NSO Group, it is alleged, crafted call initiation messages booby-trapped with malicious code: whether or not the calls were answered, the initiation messages included specially crafted data that, once received and parsed by the application, exploited a buffer-overflow bug and caused the smuggled code to execute on the target phone. The spyware maker, it is claimed, created a web of WhatsApp accounts to initiate calls that would spread the group's malware, using servers leased from various companies around the world, including Choopa, Quadranet, and Amazon Web Services, to send these messages. 'This is the first time that an encrypted messaging provider is taking legal action against a private entity that has carried out this type of attack against its users.'Р”Р„ccording to the complaint, NSO Group reverse engineered WhatsApp and developed a program to produce seemingly legitimate WhatsApp network traffic to hijack targeted smartphones that had the application installed. 'The complaint alleges violated both US and California laws as well as the WhatsApp Terms of Service, which prohibits this type of abuse,' the chat app developer explained. This is the first time that an encrypted messaging provider is taking legal action against a private entity that has carried out this type of attack against its users In a post on its website, WhatsApp said the hack, which exploited CVE-2019-3568 to compromise mobile devices without user interaction, targeted 1,400 people total, including at least 100 members of civil society.

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