WhatsApp says a sophisticated group of hackers took advantage of a flaw in the popular app to remotely hijack phones.
The revelation adds to the questions over the reach of the Israeli company's powerful spyware, which takes advantage of digital flaws to hijack smartphones, control their cameras and effectively turn them into pocket-sized surveillance devices.
NSO's spyware has repeatedly been found deployed to hack journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders and dissidents. Most notably, the spyware was implicated in the, who was dismembered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year and whose body has never been found. A poster featuring a picture of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is held outside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on Oct. 25, 2018.Several alleged targets of the spyware, including a close friend of Khashoggi and several Mexican civil society figures, are currently suing NSO in an Israeli court over the hacking.
On Monday, Amnesty International — which said last year that one its staffers was also targeted with the spyware — said it would join in a legal bid to force Israel's Ministry of Defense to suspend NSO's export license.
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