Pegasus: How does the malware sneak into a victim’s phone?

If it were a malware targeting a computer or a mobile phone, by stealthily entering the devices luring the users to click a malicious link, people would not have been surprised.

A malware targeting WhatsApp accounts of users have shocked the world because the social media platform promised a secure transmission of data between devices.

The latest snooping story reads like a sci-fi movie, with bad guys sitting in isolated geographies, launching surreptitious malware attacks on targets, stealing information by lurking there without the victims noticing the damage.