the Phone of the head of Amazon Jeff Bezos was hacked in the process of the WhatsApp chat with the Prince of Saudi Arabia. About it writes the Guardian with reference to a source and a forensic analysis which was conducted by the security service of a billionaire.
According to the newspaper, there was a break in the course of friendly conversation, presumably Bezos has received from the Prince a message in WhatsApp, infected video file, a few hours after this began a voluminous and unauthorized data transmission, which lasted several months. During this time, the device sent a few tens of gigabytes, whereas prior to receiving the video traffic for months, daily only counted in the hundreds of kilobytes. What data was stolen and how they could use is unknown, but there is an interesting and almost detective version.
after the start of the investigation Bezos company Facebook, owner of WhatsApp accused of exploitation of a known vulnerability in the messenger Israeli company NSO Group actually specializes in technologies of electronic surveillance. Among the company’s customers are mainly law enforcement agencies and special services of different countries. And services of the Israelites in great demand, the value of the company exceeds $1 billion.
the Most famous product of the NSO Group is a Pegasus that easily hacks into the program on your smartphone via voice messages including WhatsApp. And almost simultaneously, American reporters uncovered that the Director General of the NSO Group personally went to Saudi Arabia to sell the Pegasus for $55 million find more Details in the program Вести.net.
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