Zero-click Apple and WhatsApp bug combo used to drop gov spyware

Details have emerged from Meta’s encrypted communications app WhatsApp on recent vulnerabilities that appear to have been used to deploy spyware from an unnamed government, without user interaction. WhatsApp posted a security advisory for the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55177, saying it was used in combination with a flaw in Apple’s image input/output handling framework in the company’s […]

Zero-click Apple and WhatsApp bug combo used to drop gov spyware

Details have emerged from Meta’s encrypted communications app WhatsApp on recent vulnerabilities that appear to have been used to deploy spyware from an unnamed government, without user interaction. WhatsApp posted a security advisory for the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55177, saying it was used in combination with a flaw in Apple’s image input/output handling framework in the company’s […]