Urgent patches have been issued for Facebook’s messaging service ‘WhatsApp’, after attacks by a cyber surveillance firm were being made to gain access to an iPhone or Android phone and extract all of its data – texts, emails, location data, contacts, and browser history – just by placing a call through the messaging app.

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2019/whatsapp-compromised-by-surveillance-spyware.html