Bad actors installed the surveillance technology by phoning the target through WhatsApp's call functionality, according to the Financial Times.
WhatsApp has been hacked and attackers have installed spyware on an unknown number of people's smartphones.
The Facebook subsidiary, which has 1.5 billion users, said"an advanced cyber actor" infected an unknown number of people's devices with the malware, which it said it discovered in early May.. It said the bad actors were able to install the surveillance technology by phoning the target through WhatsApp's call functionality.
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