> Due to end-to-end encryption employed by WhatsApp, it is virtually impossible to decrypt the contents of the downloader to determine if it contained any malic

> Due to end-to-end encryption employed by WhatsApp, it is virtually impossible to decrypt the contents of the downloader to determine if it contained any malicious code in addition to the delivered video. I can't make any sense of that. The phone is the end in "end-to-end". It contains the decryption keys. Why would "the downloader" be any different to decrypt than the video? Also they show a screenshot of the video being sent through WhatsApp... but they're saying that the video was downloaded via some malicious executable? I would have thought the video would contain the malicious code. That makes no sense. > Advanced weapons grade mobile malware typically installs itself to the root filesystem of a device to maintain persistence and avoid detection. This report sounds like bullshit. It sounds like they looked at the cellular data use, noticed an increase after this whatsapp message was sent, and did a bunch of random stuff they barely understood to fill out the report. Their list of "forensic tools" or whatever includes like... grep. And virutalbox. They also didn't jailbreak the phone and look at the filesystem, so I'm not sure what they even looked at besides just sniffing the wifi traffic. EDIT: I reread the report. Jeff Bezos' phone was not hacked. They are claiming that a video attachment in whatsapp contained a malicious executable that gained full filesystem access to his iPhone based on absolutely nothing other than the fact that his cellular data upload increased. Most of that increase happened almost a year later. The guy just started using iCloud photo backups or sent someone videos via imessage or something. There are way simpler explanations for why the media got his text messages. Like, you know, the person he sent them to showed somebody.