Spyware such as Pegasus from the NSO Group is increasingly becoming a political problem. This was one of the findings of the ...

The US House of Representatives has banned the use of WhatsApp on government-issued devices for congressional staffers.

U.S. House’s Chief Administrative Office has banned WhatsApp on the government devices of congressional staffers.

He reiterated that messages on WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted. “This [WhatsApp] is a higher level of security than most of the apps on the Chief Administrative Officer’s (CAO’s) approved list that ...

The Meta-owned instant communication platform has strong privacy and security features but it isn’t impenetrable.

In May, the NSO Group—the Israeli firm which developed the Pegasus spyware—was ordered to pay WhatsApp $167m over a hacking campaign that targeted 1,400 users in 2019.

Iran instructed its population, via state television, to delete WhatsApp on account of safety and privacy concerns. Here’s what to know about the country-wide directive. Why has ...

Iran media urged its citizens to delete WhatsApp and Instagram, claiming that these platforms are sharing user data with Israel.

ROME (AP) — Spyware from a U.S.-backed Israeli company was used to target the phones of at least three prominent journalists in Europe, two of whom are editors at an investigative news site in ...

Last month, a California court awarded Meta $168 million in damages from Israel’s NSO Group, whose spyware was used to hack 1,400 WhatsApp accounts, including of journalists, activists and ...