Zero-Day-Exploits

WhatsApp Sues NSO Group Over Pegasus Spyware Attack on 1,400 Users

2019-10-29 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Meta-owned WhatsApp files a federal lawsuit against NSO Group in the US District Court for Northern California, alleging that NSO exploited a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2019-3568, CVSS score 9.8) in WhatsApp’s voice calling feature to install Pegasus spyware on approximately 1,400 devices …

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UAE Targets Human Rights Defender Ahmed Mansoor with NSO Pegasus Spyware

2016-08-10 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

On August 10-11, 2016, Ahmed Mansoor, an internationally recognized UAE-based human rights defender and recipient of the Martin Ennals Award, receives suspicious SMS messages on his iPhone promising “new secrets” about detainees tortured in UAE jails. Instead of clicking the malicious …

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