Whatsapp recently confirmed that around 90 journalists and people from civil society were targeted by a spyware of Paragon Solutions, a company in Israel. It was reported that it was zero-click hacking, which means that the data of the device can be accessed by the user without clicking in any link. Such spyware has been the subject of discussion earlier. In the latest agreement, hackers allegedly used malicious electronic documents, which automatically hack it as soon as they reach a device. It is reported that paragon sells its spyware especially to governments. WhatsApp has also issued a warning for its users regarding this.

After confirming the targeting journalists from many countries around the world and members of the civil society by the spyware of Paragon Solutions, now WhatsApp has issued a warning to its users. WhatsApp has admitted that the device of the affected users has been tampered with remotely. WhatsApp official has Reuters (Via Ndtv) He told that he has discovered the attempt to hack around 90 users. The platform owned by Meta also reported that it was zero-click hack.

What is ‘zero-click’ hack?

Zero-click hack is very difficult for a common user to avoid, as it automatically becomes active as soon as it comes through a file on the device. For this, the user does not have to click on any link or file. As soon as a file is received in the device, the spyware starts its work. It does its work in the background, so that users do not even get to know about it. Let us know that the WhatsApp official has told the Reuters that malicious electronic documents were sent to the affected users.

The report further states that WhatsApp had since stopped hacking and referring to Target to Canadian Internet Monitoring Group Citizen Lab. The officer refused to discuss how he determined that paragon was responsible for the hack.