{"id":959677,"date":"2025-09-06T08:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959677"},"modified":"2025-09-06T08:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:09:03","slug":"whatsapp-patches-exploit-allowing-hackers-to-target-apple-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/06\/whatsapp-patches-exploit-allowing-hackers-to-target-apple-users\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp patches exploit allowing hackers to target Apple users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has patched a security vulnerability that allowed sophisticated attacks against the Apple devices of &#8220;specific targeted users&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The messaging app, owned by Meta Platforms, said in a blog post that its vulnerability, chained with a bug found in iOS and iPadOS, allowed hackers to exploit and steal information from Apple devices.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Amnesty&#8217;s Security Lab researcher Donncha O Cearbhaill said the malicious campaign lasted about 90 days. He said other apps beyond WhatsApp may also have been affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has patched a security vulnerability that allowed sophisticated attacks against the Apple devices of &#8220;specific targeted users&#8221;. The messaging app, owned by Meta Platforms, said in a blog post that its vulnerability, chained with a bug found in iOS and iPadOS, allowed hackers to exploit and steal information from Apple devices. In a post on X, Amnesty&#8217;s Security Lab researcher Donncha O Cearbhaill said the malicious campaign lasted about 90 days. He said other apps beyond WhatsApp may also have been affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}