Claim

zero-click exploit AFFECTS WhatsApp

Citizen Lab found a zero-click exploit targeting WhatsApp users, after which WhatsApp patched the application.

Episode
EP 100 — NSO
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
98% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
John Scott-Railton
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“he was targeted with what we now know to have been a zero-click exploit against WhatsApp users”

John Scott-Railton · offsets 46431–46525

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T07:15:24.822394+00:00

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