Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. While it doesn’t exploit any bugs, this attack does exploit WhatsApp ...

Israel's NSO Group was handed a $168 million penalty by a federal jury in California on Tuesday for hijacking the servers of WhatsApp in order to hack users of the Meta-owned chat platform on behalf ...

Built by the London-based entrepreneur Peter Steinberger, it has gone viral since mid-January. After downloading the bot, users hand it access to a large part of their digital lives – including email ...

I remember a time when WhatsApp was just a simple messaging app used primarily to send texts and images. Today, under Meta’s ownership, it has evolved into a multifunctional platform, offering a wide ...

India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has warned all users of WhatsApp of a new cyber threat called WhatsApp Ghost Pairing Scams, which allow attackers to access your account without ...

A senior Mumbai doctor's phone was hacked, with scammers sending fraudulent money requests to Maharashtra Chief Minister and Bollywood actors among others.

NSO Group was fined $168 million for hacking WhatsApp users. NSO charged European governments millions of dollars for their spyware platform. The CIA and FBI paid NSO $7.6 million. NSO continued ...