Meta has confirmed a zero-click spyware attack on WhatsApp that targeted around 90 journalists and civil society members across more than two dozen countries. The breach, detected in December 2024, involved spyware from Israeli firm Paragon Solutions, delivered via a malicious PDF file in WhatsApp
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