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Jeff Bezos phone hacking incident
- bdjsiqoocwk 3y ago> claimed that in May 2018 with "medium to high confidence" the phone of Jeff Bezos had been hacked by a file sent from the WhatsApp account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman. Is someone has claimed this to be I would said - that's silly MbS knows better than to conduct business over WhatsApp, and JB knows better than to open files sent to him. I mean, can you imagine a movie where this is the plot?
- __jonas 3y ago> JB knows better than to open files sent to him. That's not how these NSO spyware attacks work, or used to work – the ones that are now known were zero-click exploits in WhatsApp / iMessage that required no interaction with the message. https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/ https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage... Of course I'm only guessing that's what was potentially used in this case, but doesn't seem too far fetched.
- merlyn 3y agoFrontline had a pretty decent series on Pegasus malware. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/global-spyware-scandal-exposing-pegasus/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/global-spywar...
- adt 3y agoWhat a labyrinthian Wikipedia article. Surely they could have written it more clearly, and in plain English.
- pests 3y ago> The video in the file was not infected, but the downloader of the file could not be analyzed by investigators because it was encrypted by WhatsApp.[16] Can anyone translate that back to tech for us? What exactly is being called a "downloader" here?