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WhatsApp snooping: Whom did you meet, Chhattisgarh Police ask Israel’s NSO

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WhatsApp snooping: Whom did you meet, Chhattisgarh Police ask Israel’s NSO In May, WhatsApp has said it became aware of NSO Group having used a coding glitch in the messaging app that let its customers spy on some people Current Affairs :The Chhattisgarh Police has kept in touch with the Israeli organization behind the Pegasus spyware that was utilized, as indicated by late disclosures, to snoop on around 1,400 people, including 121 Indians, by abusing a WhatsApp weakness. In a letter to Shalev Hulio, a fellow benefactor of NSO Group, which created and sells Pegasus, the police have requested data on the Israeli company’s supposed gathering and introduction to senior cops of the state in 2017. As per news reports, the introduction was made to senior IPS officials in Raipur during 2017 (when a previous government was set up). Individuals in the state were purportedly dependent upon the snooping empowered by Pegasus through WhatsApp. In the letter dated November 5, as per ...