{"id":31714,"date":"2025-08-29T22:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31714\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:44:07","slug":"whatsapp-finds-new-hacking-campaign-targeting-fewer-than-200-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31714\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp finds new hacking campaign targeting fewer than 200 people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">By Raphael Satter<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">WASHINGTON (Reuters) -WhatsApp said Friday it discovered an advanced cyberespionage effort that took advantage of a chain of security vulnerabilities in the app and Apple devices to hack them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">A researcher with Amnesty International said unidentified members of civic groups appeared to be among those impacted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In a brief statement, the Meta Platforms-owned communications service said it had patched the security vulnerability that allowed hackers to take advantage of a second vulnerability on Apple devices and hijack the machines. In a statement, WhatsApp said that fewer than 200 users worldwide had potentially been impacted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Donncha O Cearbhaill, who heads Amnesty&#8217;s Security Lab, told Reuters that his group was starting to collect forensic data from potential victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In a post on X, he said that initial signs were that the hacking &#8220;was impacting both iPhone and Android users, civil society individuals among them.&#8221; He said other apps beyond WhatsApp may also have been affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Raphael Satter; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -WhatsApp said Friday it discovered an advanced cyberespionage effort that took advantage of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[24917,24918,18,19,17,24916,82,4635],"class_list":{"0":"post-31714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-amnesty-international","9":"tag-apple-devices","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-security-vulnerabilities","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-whatsapp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}