Meta reports ongoing spear-phishing attempts by NSO Group targeting WhatsApp users, using malicious links in social engineering attacks to drive victims to external websites. The article does not provide technical details on a specific software vulnerability, CVSS score, affected versions, a fixed version, or a workaround, focusing instead on legal actions against the persistent threat actor.
Meta claims it disrupted spear-phishing attempts linked to NSO Group and is asking a US federal court to hold the spyware vendor in contempt for allegedly violating an injunction that bars it from targeting WhatsApp and its users. “We successfully disrupted NSO-linked social engineering attempts after investigating user reports,” Meta stated. “They tried to trick people into clicking on malicious links to drive them to external websites outside of WhatsApp, similar to previously reported 1-click … More → The post Meta claims NSO Group still targets WhatsApp users despite court order appeared first on Help Net Security .