{"id":85944,"date":"2019-10-29T18:40:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T22:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85944"},"modified":"2019-10-29T18:41:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T22:41:24","slug":"ft-whatsapp-hack-led-to-targeting-of-100-journalists-and-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85944","title":{"rendered":"(FT) WhatsApp hack led to targeting of 100 journalists and dissidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 100 journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents had their smartphones attacked by spyware that exploited a vulnerability in WhatsApp, according to the Facebook-owned messaging service.<\/p>\n<p>The victims of the attack, which was&nbsp;first revealed by the Financial Times in May, were contacted by WhatsApp on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Their phones were targeted through WhatsApp\u2019s call function by customers of the Israel-based NSO Group, which makes Pegasus, a spyware program. Once installed, Pegasus is designed to take over all of a phone\u2019s functions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/67a5b442-f971-11e9-a354-36acbbb0d9b6\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A vulnerability in WhatsApp \u2013 the messaging app used by 1.5bn people globally \u2013 was used to target at least 100 journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents with an Israeli firm\u2019s spyware that was designed to take over smartphones <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pCkmOUV9z5\">https:\/\/t.co\/pCkmOUV9z5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FinancialTimes\/status\/1189256578567942144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 100 journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents had their smartphones attacked by spyware that exploited a vulnerability in WhatsApp, according to the Facebook-owned messaging service. The victims of the attack, which was&nbsp;first revealed by the Financial Times<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85944\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[589,168,89,151,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-media","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85946,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85944\/revisions\/85946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}