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WhatsApp said on Friday that it had disrupted a hacking campaign that targeted around 90 users, including journalists and members of civil society.

A WhatsApp spokesperson told TechCrunch that the campaign was linked to Paragon, an Israeli spyware maker that was acquired in December of last year

by American private equity giant AE industrial partners.

WhatsApp said that the hacking campaign used malicious PDFs sent via WhatsApp groups to compromise

targets and said it had pushed a fix to prevent this mechanism.

A senior researcher at the Citizen Lab who who has for years investigated spyware companies

and their abuses, told TechCrunch that they also have observed this hacking campaign by

Paragon using this specific attack vector and that they are investigating it.

WhatsApp told TechRunch that it believed the hacking campaign happened in December

and that it sent a cease and desist letter to Paragon.

Apple's AI suite, Apple Intelligence, will soon be available in French, German, Italian, Portuguese,

Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese, along with localized

English versions for India and Singapore. During the company's Q4-2020-4 quarterly results call on Thursday,

CEO Tim Apple, or I mean CEO Tim Cook, said that the company will rollout support for these

additional languages in April.

Now, last year, Apple Intelligence's first release only supported U.S. English.

Later, in December, when the company issued the iOS 18.2 update, it included support for

English in Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, South African, and UK localizations. The company hasn't

revealed plans to roll out its AI suite in the EU and mainland China.

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