{"id":17565,"date":"2025-01-31T14:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/whatsapp-says-journalists-and-civil-society-members-were-targets-of-israeli-spyware\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T14:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:38:27","slug":"whatsapp-says-journalists-and-civil-society-members-were-targets-of-israeli-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/whatsapp-says-journalists-and-civil-society-members-were-targets-of-israeli-spyware\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messaging app said it had \u2018high confidence\u2019 some users were targeted and \u2018possibly compromised\u2019 by Paragon Solutions spyware<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Meta, were targeted by spyware owned by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli maker of hacking software, the company alleged today.<\/p>\n<p>The journalists and other civil society members were being alerted of a possible breach of their devices, with WhatsApp telling the Guardian it had \u201chigh confidence\u201d that the users in question had been targeted and \u201cpossibly compromised\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/31\/whatsapp-israel-spyware\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b2cb95484d41a4fce89684cfe98bcac63fba1476\/0_150_2252_1351\/master\/2252.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a299e4ceeadbcf2a4e0ca7749a51f20f\" title=\"WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware\" \/>Messaging app said it had \u2018high confidence\u2019 some users were targeted and \u2018possibly compromised\u2019 by Paragon Solutions spyware<br \/>\nNearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Meta, were targeted by spyware owned by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli maker of hacking software, the company alleged today.<br \/>\nThe journalists and other civil society members were being alerted of a possible breach of their devices, with WhatsApp telling the Guardian it had \u201chigh confidence\u201d that the users in question had been targeted and \u201cpossibly compromised\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messaging app said it had \u2018high confidence\u2019 some users were targeted and \u2018possibly compromised\u2019 by Paragon Solutions spyware Nearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Meta, were targeted by spyware owned by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli maker of hacking software, the company alleged today. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/whatsapp-says-journalists-and-civil-society-members-were-targets-of-israeli-spyware\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}