officials are basing their conclusions.īut Marczak said it is generally good advice to “always be on the lookout for suspicious links or messages that sound too good to be true."Įven caution about avoiding suspicious links might not be good enough to ward off spyware - especially for high-profile targets like dissidents, journalists and wealthy executives. Many other security experts have also questioned the forensics report upon which U.N. UC Berkeley cybersecurity researcher Bill Marczak cautioned that there's still no conclusive evidence that the Saudi video was malicious, adding that it might be premature to jump to broader conclusions about it.
Virgin Group said it was looking into it. Palantir Technologies confirmed that its CEO Alex Karp met with the prince but said they never shared personal messages. Google and Apple didn’t respond to emailed requests for comment this week on whether their executives shared personal contacts after that trip. Virgin Group founder Richard Branson gave the Saudi delegation a tour of the Mojave Air and Space Port in the desert north of Los Angeles. On the same visit, the prince also met with other tech executives, including the CEOs of Google, Apple and Palantir, as well as sports and entertainment celebrities and academic leaders. Prince Mohammed exchanged numbers with Bezos during a U.S. “It could have been in any one of any number of apps." “It just so happens that this one was a vulnerability in WhatsApp," said JT Keating, of Texas-based security firm Zimperium. Other messaging apps are likely also vulnerable.
WhatsApp users can disable the automatic downloading of photos, videos and other media, which happens by default unless the user takes action. In fact, an infected attachment can't be detected by security software while it's encrypted, and apps like WhatsApp don't scan for malware even once files are decrypted. That encryption, however, is no help if a trusted contact finds a way to use that connection to break into the phone's operating system. What many people may not have realized is that it, like almost any messaging service, can act as a conduit for malware. WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, is generally considered a secure way of trading private online messages due to the fact that it scrambles messages and calls with encryption so that only senders and recipients can understand them.
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