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Why rebooting your phone daily is your best defense against zero-click hackers
Mobile spyware attacks are on the rise globally. That's why you should treat your phone like a computer, according to this cybersecurity expert.
According to a WhatsApp spokesperson, the Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions -- now acquired by Florida-based private equity firm AE Industrial Partners -- was behind the attack. In an interview with ZDNET, Rocky Cole, co-founder of mobile threat protection company iVerify, said that "in the case of graphite, via WhatsApp, some kind of payload, like a PDF or an image, [was sent to the victims' devices] and the underlying processes that receive and handle those packages have vulnerabilities that the attackers exploit [to] infect the phone." Historically, the NSO Group has avoided selling to US-based clients and has also been banned by the US Commerce Department under the Biden administration for allegedly supplying spyware to authoritarian governments.
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