National Enquirer threat to reveal intimate Bezos pics trains focus on privacy protection February 8, 2019 https://www.scmagazine.com/home/net...ezos-pics-trains-focus-on-privacy-protection/
Bezos Case Exposes Billionaires' Vulnerability to Hackers February 11, 2019 https://www.securityweek.com/bezos-case-exposes-billionaires-vulnerability-hackers
Why not? Also, Signal is hardly the most secure option. For example, there are a few totally P2P apps that peer as Tor onion services. Add a nested VPN chain for hitting the Tor network, and end-to-end encryption with GnuPG, and adversaries would be hard pressed to get anything. Unless you and/or your correspondents have sloppy OPSEC.
What business leaders can learn from Jeff Bezos’ leaked texts February 17, 2019 https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/17/what-business-leaders-can-learn-from-jeff-bezos-leaked-texts/
"Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'... The Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone “hacked” in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message that had apparently been sent from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, sources have told the Guardian. The encrypted message from the number used by Mohammed bin Salman is believed to have included a malicious file that infiltrated the phone of the world’s richest man, according to the results of a digital forensic analysis..." https://www.theguardian.com/technol...eff-bezoss-phone-hacked-by-saudi-crown-prince
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's response: "Recent media reports that suggest the Kingdom is behind a hacking of Mr. Jeff Bezos' phone are absurd. We call for an investigation on these claims so that we can have all the facts out." https://twitter.com/SaudiEmbassyUSA/status/1219792870389035008
"Saudi crown prince implicated in hack of Jeff Bezos’s phone, U.N. report will say A United Nations investigation to be released Wednesday will report that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s cellphone was hacked in 2018 after he got a WhatsApp message that came from an account purportedly belonging to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to a person with direct knowledge of the report...." https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...c3f73a-3ca2-11ea-b90d-5652806c3b3a_story.html
"UN Experts Call For Probe Into Allegations of Bezos’ Phone Hack... Independent experts Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions and extrajudicial killings, and David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, said in a statement Wednesday: 'The information we have received suggests the possible involvement of the Crown Prince in surveillance of Mr. Bezos, in an effort to influence, if not silence, The Washington Post’s reporting on Saudi Arabia... The alleged hacking of Mr. Bezos’s phone, and those of others, demands immediate investigation by U.S. and other relevant authorities, including investigation of the continuous, multi-year, direct and personal involvement of the Crown Prince in efforts to target perceived opponents..." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...or-probe-into-allegations-of-bezos-phone-hack "United Nations investigators said that they had concluded 'with reasonable certainty' that Bezos’s phone was hacked from an account belonging to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, warranting an “immediate investigation..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...vement-in-targeting-jeff-bezos-and-opponents/
"Bezos and Mohammed exchanged phone numbers at a dinner in Los Angeles about a month before the hack... Four weeks later, on May 1, 2018, the prince sent the billionaire entrepreneur a WhatsApp message containing a video that,... was a promotional piece about economic success in Saudi Arabia. Inside the video file, the forensic report concludes, was malicious code that allowed the sender to extract information from the phone... The infecting technology did not require Bezos to click on the video, but rather instantly created a channel for remote extraction of data from the phone,.." https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...bc63ba-3d1f-11ea-b90d-5652806c3b3a_story.html
Sure, but here's the thing. No malware has actually been found. They suspected the video's downloader, but didn't manage to reverse engineer it. This article has the actual FTI report embedded: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/...-saudi-arabias-prince-hacked-jeff-bezos-phone The investigation was amateurish, incomplete, and perhaps even botched.
For the rich and famous, there's no silver bullet to avoid phone hacks The rich are different, but their smartphones aren't January 25, 2020 https://us.cnn.com/2020/01/25/tech/bezos-amazon-cybersecurity/index.html
Facebook Gives Unintelligible Response to Jeff Bezos Hack, Deciding to Blame iOS January 26, 2020 https://gizmodo.com/facebook-gives-unintelligible-response-to-jeff-bezos-ha-1841238596
As much as I hate to agree with anything from Facebook, this seems obvious: I mean, it seems that someone sent malware through WhatsApp, and WhatsApp delivered it. And indeed, that's consistent with WhatsApp messages being end-to-end encrypted. I mean, how could WhatsApp have known what was in the message? What's curious, though, is how whatever got dropped from that message could run on iOS. In that it's my understanding that apps must be signed by Apple, in order to run. So does this imply that the malware's author has a stolen Apple key?
Dem senator asks intelligence agencies to open probe into Bezos phone hack January 29, 2020 https://thehill.com/policy/cybersec...encies-to-open-investigation-into-bezos-phone
How Not to Get Hacked: Learning From Jeff Bezos A cybersecurity expert says businesses should not be relying on social media to communicate February 3, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/opinion/letters/cybersecurity-jeff-bezos.html