NSO Group Hacking WhatsApp Despite Court Order
2026-06-11T07:23:40Z•03dd19bce76068abc53c1d535e3bcf87a2347d6a4dcfc47aec88927900ba922b
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What happened
Bruce Schneier’s blog roundup (June 2026) highlights multiple high‑impact security developments: NSO Group continued phishing WhatsApp users despite a court order; a critical Zcash Orchard vulnerability was found and patched that could have enabled minting ZEC from nothing; researchers prototyped an AI‑powered worm that carries an LLM; attackers abused Meta’s AI support chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts; an anonymous researcher published Windows exploits (including a BitLocker bypass) leading to Microsoft threatening legal action; Anthropic’s Project Glasswing/’Mythos’ flagged thousands of潜
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