Rebooting your phone daily is your best defense against zero-click attacks - here's why

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Over the past decade, spyware tools have repeatedly been found on the phones of journalists, activists, and politicians. This has raised concerns about the unprecedented proliferation of spyware technology and the lack of protections in the tech sector. Also: Got a suspicious E-ZPass text? Don't click the link (and what to do if you already did) Meta's WhatsApp recently revealed it discovered a hacking campaign targeting about 90 users -- mostly journalists and civil-society members in two dozen countries. According to a WhatsApp spokesperson, the Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions -- now owned by Florida-based private equity firm AE Industrial Partners -- was behind the attack. Graphite, Paragon's spyware, infiltrated WhatsApp groups by sending users a malicious PDF attachment. Without their knowledge, it can access and read messages on encrypted apps like WhatsApp and Signal. What is a zero-click capability? A zero-click attack, like the one ... Read full article.