The case involves phone prefixes from more than ten countries, including Latvia, according to WhatsApp officials.
These people were sent electronic documents on WhatsApp, either directly or after joining a WhatsApp chat group, which did not even need to be opened for the spyware to start working. Such zero-click hacking is considered to be highly covert.
WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, did not identify the targets or their exact locations, but said they were in more than ...