Meta said it discovered and disrupted a malicious campaign targeting journalists and civil society members on its popular messaging platform, WhatsApp.

Threat actors weaponize WhatsApp in malicious campaign

Meta recently discovered that threat actors were spreading malware through WhatsApp in a targeted malicious campaign.

The operation saw perpetrators push Paragon, a strain of spyware also known as Graphite, towards nearly 100 targets, including civil society members and journalists.

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Brazilian Windows users are the target of a campaign that delivers a banking malware known as Coyote.
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