WhatsApp Alerts 200 Users After Fake iOS App Installed Spyware; Italian Firm Faces Action

WhatsApp alerted approximately 200 users, mostly in Italy, who were tricked into installing a fake iOS app infected with spyware linked to Italian firm Asigint.

• •WhatsApp is taking legal action against Asigint, an Italian subsidiary of spyware company SIO, for creating a counterfeit version of its app.
• •SIO was previously linked to malicious Android apps using a spyware family called Spyrtacus that stole private data from targets in Italy.
• •Italy hosts multiple surveillance tool vendors including Cy4Gate, eSurv, GR Sistemi, Negg, Raxir, and RCS Lab, earning it the label of a 'spyware hub.'
• •The article also covers related cases: WhatsApp's prior alerts about Paragon's Graphite spyware, a Greek court sentencing Intellexa's founder over Predator spyware use, and Spain closing its Pegasus probe.

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