In an interview with the Guardian, the WhatsApp CEO talks about NSO malware and says Apple should “be loud, join in” rather than saying th

WhatsApp CEO calls out Apple regarding NSO malware

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2021-07-26 00:30:05

In an interview with the Guardian, the WhatsApp CEO talks about NSO malware and says Apple should “be loud, join in” rather than saying this won’t affect many of its users.

Last weekend, an explosive report from Amnesty International detailed targeted attacks towards target human rights activists, lawyers, and journalists using Apple’s iMessage system as a vector by which to deliver the zero-click attacks.

During this week, the Pegasus project, a collaboration of 17 media organizations that investigated NSO, showed that senior government officials around the world were target by governments with NSO Group spyware in a 2019 attack abasing 1,400 WhatsApp users.

The Guardian reports that “Cathcart said that he saw parallels between the attack against WhatsApp users in 2019 – which is now the subject of a lawsuit brought by WhatsApp against NSO – and reports about a massive data leak that are at the center of the Pegasus project.”

In the interview, WhatsApp CEO praised recent moves by Microsoft and others in tech industry but called on Apple to adopt the same approach.