NSO Group Hacking WhatsApp Despite Court Order
2026-06-10T19:23:45Z•2957221e1e15501ee1e529cf2fd4911c603eced988686dd7e9fa52d3bda2b7e9
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What happened
Bruce Schneier's June blog roundup covers multiple high-risk security developments: WhatsApp caught the NSO Group continuing spyware/phishing despite a court order; a critical Zcash Orchard vulnerability that could have created ZEC was found and patched; researchers prototyped an AI-powered worm that carries an LLM; attackers abused Meta's AI support chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts; Microsoft threatened a researcher publishing Windows/BitLocker exploits; Anthropic's Project Glasswing found many potential vulnerabilities yet few are being patched; researchers discovered the U.S. military's
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