{"id":1731,"date":"2025-02-04T05:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/journalists-and-civil-society-members-using-whatsapp-targeted-by-paragon-spyware-html\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T05:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:03:29","slug":"journalists-and-civil-society-members-using-whatsapp-targeted-by-paragon-spyware-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/journalists-and-civil-society-members-using-whatsapp-targeted-by-paragon-spyware-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists and Civil Society Members Using WhatsApp Targeted by Paragon Spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Journalists and Civil Society Members Using WhatsApp Targeted by Paragon Spyware<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This is yet another story of commercial spyware being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/31\/whatsapp-israel-spyware\">used against<\/a> journalists and civil society members.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The journalists and other civil society members were being alerted of a possible breach of their devices, with WhatsApp telling the Guardian it had \u201chigh confidence\u201d that the 90 users in question had been targeted and \u201cpossibly compromised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear who was behind the attack. Like other spyware makers, Paragon\u2019s hacking software is used by government clients and WhatsApp said it had not been able to identify the clients who ordered the alleged attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said the targeting was a \u201czero-click\u201d attack, which means targets would not have had to click on any malicious links to be infected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/02\/journalists-and-civil-society-members-using-whatsapp-targeted-by-paragon-spyware.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists and Civil Society Members Using WhatsApp Targeted by Paragon Spyware This is yet another story of commercial spyware being used against journalists and civil society members. The journalists and other civil society members were being alerted of a possible breach of their devices, with WhatsApp telling the Guardian it had \u201chigh confidence\u201d that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,253,1,460],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-spyware","category-uncategorized","category-whatsapp","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}