WhatsApp Just Patched a ‘Zero Click’ Bug Being Used to Hack Apple Users

Friday, WhatsApp announced that it patching a software weakness that unknown hackers were used to target specific users of Apple products and hack with spyware.

WhatsApp, owned by Meta, said in an adviser that the previously unknown bug “may be used in a sophisticated attack against certain target users.” The weakness is officially dubbed CV-2025-55177.

TechCrunch Notes that This week, WhatsApp fixes the bug last week, Apple fixed one more bug, it is known CV-2025-43300The Outlet writes, together, these weaknesses seem to be weak spots that allow the contaminated spyware attacks to target specific Apple users for stealing data from their devices.

Apple describes his bug in such a way: “The processing of a contaminated image file can cause memory corruption. Apple is aware of a report that this problem can be used in a highly sophisticated attack against specific target people.” Gizmodo reached Apple and WhatsApp for more information.

WhatsApp told TechCrunch that it informed the “less than 200 user” that they could be influenced by promotion. Doncha ó Serbil, the main Doncha of the Amnesty International Lab, Say Notifications were sent over the last 90 days. “Our team in the Amnesty International’s Protection Lab is actively investigating the cases with a number of people in this campaign,” said Serbil X. “We are available to support members of civil society that we have received WhatsApp notifications.”

The zero-chican attacks have become increasingly common and have become intimidating because the name suggests just as a person does not need any active phishing to enter the interior of the mobile OS. Often, all the bad actors have to do is to send a contaminated file (often an image), which can accept the phone itself. Over the past several years, most of the Malware journalists, staff and government officials capable of attacking Zero-Chicon have been noticed Israel -based companyThe