On Friday, WhatsApp announced that it had corrected a software vulnerability that was used by unknown hackers to target specific users of Apple products and hack it with spy software.
WhatsApp, which belongs to Meta, said in an opinion that the unknown bunge “may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific targeted users”. Vulnerability is officially nicknamed CVE-2025-55177.
Techcrunch notes that this week, WhatsApp has corrected the bug while last week Apple corrected another bug, known as CVE-2025-43300. Together, these vulnerabilities seem to have been the weaknesses that have enabled attacks on malware targeting specific Apple users, intended to steal data from their devices, writes the point of sale.
Apple describes its bug as such: “The processing of a malicious image file can cause memory corruption. Apple is aware of a report that this problem may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals. ” Gizmodo contacted Apple and WhatsApp for more information.
WhatsApp told Techcrunch that he had informed “less than 200 users” that they may have been affected by the campaign. Donncha ó Cearbhaill, chief of the Amnesty International security laboratory, said the notifications had been sent in the last 90 days. “Our team from the Amnesty International security laboratory actively investigates cases with a number of targeted people in this campaign,” said Cearbhaill on X. “We are available to support civil society members who have received WhatsApp notifications.”
Zero-click attacks have become increasingly common and frightening because, just as its name suggests, it does not require any active phishing to enter the interior content of the mobile operating system of a person. Often, all that a bad actor must do is send a malicious file (often an image), which can take control of the phone by itself. In recent years, malicious software capable of zero clicks have been intended for journalists, activists and government representatives – a large part from Israel -based companies.
