WhatsApp hacking: How the targets found out

The Israeli spyware Pegasus, which is suspected to be behind the hacking through WhatsApp worldwide, was reportedly used to target several Indian human rights activists, academics and journalists.

An investigation by Facebook and Citizen Lab, which is at the University of Toronto, found that more than 1,400 individuals became targets of the spyware, owned by an Israeli company called the NSO Group.

Several targeted persons in India that this website spoke to mentioned that a Citizen Lab representative told them governments generally buy the spyware for surveillance. Activist Bela Bhatia said the Citizen Lab representative mentioned that its investigation had shown “our own government was involved in this”.