WhatsApp just correcting the “zero -click” defect used to penetrate Apple users

On Friday, WhatsApp announced that he had corrected a software vulnerability used by unknown infiltrators to target specific users of Apple products and penetrate them using spyware.

“Perhaps it was used in an advanced attack against specific users.” It is officially called Cve-2025-55177.

Techcrunch Note that This week, WhatsApp fixed the error while last week, Apple fixed another error, known as as Cve-2025-43300. Together, these weaknesses seemed to have been the weak spots that allowed the attacks of malicious spyware targeting apple users from Apple, which aim to steal data from their devices, as the port writes.

Apple describes its mistake in this way: “The processing of a harmful image file may lead to memory corruption. Apple realizes a report that this problem has been used in a very advanced attack against specific targeted individuals.” Gizmodo has access to Apple and WhatsApp for more information.

He told WhatsApp Techcrunch that he had been “less than 200 users” that they might be affected by the campaign. Donncha ó cearbhaill, head of the Security Laboratory of Amnesty International, He said that The notifications have been sent over the past ninety days. Cearbhaill said on X.

Zero -zero attacks have become increasingly common and are scary because, just as the name suggests, they do not require any active fishing to penetrate the internal content of a person’s mobile operating system. Often, all the bad actor needs to do is send a harmful file (often an image), which can control the phone on its own. Over the past few years, malware capable of clicking zerry has been targeted Companies based in Israel.