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> 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
by 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...