WhatsApp Catches Spyware Firm NSO Defying No-Hacking Court Order
2026-06-08T13:24:08Z•f87114efa199c3a7e8a3344a52ce4f4f3a253ba74e5adf3399c55b0a7bc5e67b
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What happened
Multiple active and high-impact incidents and industry moves reported: WhatsApp is seeking a federal contempt order against spyware vendor NSO for alleged hacking despite a court ban; a critical Everest Forms WordPress vulnerability enabling remote code execution has been exploited in the wild for around two months; SolarWinds Serv‑U suffers an unauthenticated exploit/crash via crafted POST requests and is being actively exploited; a ransomware group dubbed “Silent Ransom” is targeting US law firms and using DNS fast‑flux to hide C2 infrastructure; Meta disclosed ~20,000 Instagram accounts hij
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- 2026-06-08T13:24:08Z
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