A former WhatsApp employee accuses the company of ignoring critical cybersecurity issues and firing him after internal complaints. Meta denies the allegations.
The messenger service WhatsApp has fixed a critical security vulnerability in its Apple clients that allowed attackers to install spyware without user intervention. According to Meta, the vulnerability with the identifier CVE-2025-55177 was already fixed a few weeks ago.
Five years ago, it became known that hundreds of WhatsApp users had been spied on. The developer of the surveillance software has now been fined heavily.