Psyops
The NSO Group and the Weaponization of WhatsApp
May 21, 2019
Dylan Ramshaw
On 13 May, WhatsApp notified Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), the messaging app’s lead regulator in the European Union, of a “serious security vulnerability” on its platform. The following day, European regulators confirmed they were investigating into the breach as a violation of privacy regulations. In a statement, the DPC said it “understands that the vulnerability may have enabled a malicious actor to install unauthorized software and gain access to personal data on devices which have WhatsApp installed.”…