Image: Shutterstock/Alex Ruhl Image: Shutterstock/Alex Ruhl SPYWARE CRAFTED BY an “advanced cyber actor” infected multiple targeted mobile phones through the popular WhatsApp communications app without any user intervention through in-app voice calls, the company said.
An unknown number of people – an amount in the dozens at least would not be inaccurate – were infected with the malware, which the company said it discovered this month, said the spokesman, who was not authorised to be quoted by name. The spokesman said WhatsApp, which has more than 1.5 billion users, immediately contacted Citizen Lab and human rights groups, quickly fixed the issue and pushed out a patch.
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