The WhatsApp instant messaging application, owned by the American technology Meta, has denounced A cyberspage campaign Against about 90 users, including journalists, conducted using the ‘software’ of an Israeli company, according to specialized media.
WhatsApp said that campaign, interrupted in December 2024, used ‘spy programs’ (“Spyware”) of Israeli Paragon Solutions and her goal were about 90 journalists and activists of about twenty countriesespecially from Europe, which have been notified, collects NBC News.
He added that Paragon used a “vector”, A method to illegally access a network, possibly through chat groups and sending “a malicious PDF file”, but does not know who hired the attack. WhatsApp, who did not answer EFE questions about the attack and nationality of those affected, sent a letter to Paragon to cease his activity and does not rule out legal actions, according to the US edition of The Guardian.
An Italian journalist, Francesco Cancelato, who directs the Fanpage research media, said Friday that He was notified by WhatsApp as one of the victims of the cyberspage campaign. “Our investigations indicate that you could have received a malicious file through WhatsApp and that the Spyware could have led to their data, including messages saved on the device,” said the notification of the social network, according to an article by Translated cancellation from Italian.
Paragon is the creator of the ‘Espía’ Graphite program, It has customers to government agencies and was recently acquired by the American investment group AE Industrial Partners. According to its website, it is defined as a “cyber -defense” company and offers solutions “based on ethics” to “locate and analyze digital data”, train digital workers or “mitigate threats.”
