Meta warns iPhone users of Italian spyware campaign disguised as WhatsApp: Here’s what you need to know
WhatsApp has warned around 200 users who were tricked into downloading a malicious version of the app that contained spyware. According to Italy’s Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA), the malicious software was developed by an Italian surveillance company SIO that develops surveillance tools for governments via its subsidiary ASIGINT.
The social media giant says that around 200 users were victims of a social engineering attack that tricked them into installing this malicious version of WhatsApp.
