{"id":17691,"date":"2025-02-10T20:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/revelations-of-israeli-spyware-abuse-raise-fears-over-possible-use-by-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T20:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:37:41","slug":"revelations-of-israeli-spyware-abuse-raise-fears-over-possible-use-by-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/revelations-of-israeli-spyware-abuse-raise-fears-over-possible-use-by-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Revelations of Israeli spyware abuse raise fears over possible use by Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After WhatsApp claimed 90 users were targeted last year, experts concerned over how US could use cyberweapons<\/p>\n<p>Even as WhatsApp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/dec\/20\/whatsapp-pegasus-spyware-nso-group-hacking\">celebrated a major legal victory<\/a> in December against NSO Group, the Israeli maker of one of the world\u2019s most powerful cyberweapons, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/31\/whatsapp-israel-spyware\"> a new threat was detected<\/a>, this time involving another Israel-based company that has previously agreed contracts with democratic governments around the world \u2013 including the US.<\/p>\n<p>Late in January, WhatsApp claimed that 90 of its users, including some journalists and members of civil society, were targeted last year by spyware made by a company called Paragon Solutions. The allegation is raising urgent questions about how Paragon\u2019s government clients are using the powerful hacking tool.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/10\/israel-nso-spyware-whatsapp-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eb9659d81f97d8c1c18ab647341d113036da1fe9\/0_181_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1b3aff6ccaa24c45ba4a8515aca99e95\" title=\"Revelations of Israeli spyware abuse raise fears over possible use by Trump\" \/>After WhatsApp claimed 90 users were targeted last year, experts concerned over how US could use cyberweapons<br \/>\nEven as WhatsApp celebrated a major legal victory in December against NSO Group, the Israeli maker of one of the world\u2019s most powerful cyberweapons,  a new threat was detected, this time involving another Israel-based company that has previously agreed contracts with democratic governments around the world \u2013 including the US.<br \/>\nLate in January, WhatsApp claimed that 90 of its users, including some journalists and members of civil society, were targeted last year by spyware made by a company called Paragon Solutions. The allegation is raising urgent questions about how Paragon\u2019s government clients are using the powerful hacking tool. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After WhatsApp claimed 90 users were targeted last year, experts concerned over how US could use cyberweapons Even as WhatsApp celebrated a major legal victory in December against NSO Group, the Israeli maker of one of the world\u2019s most powerful cyberweapons, a new threat was detected, this time involving another Israel-based company that has previously &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/revelations-of-israeli-spyware-abuse-raise-fears-over-possible-use-by-trump\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revelations of Israeli spyware abuse raise fears over possible use by Trump<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17692,"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\/17691"}],"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=17691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}