Indian journalists and activists were targeted with spyware through cyberattack using WhatsApp

A huge story this week. WhatsApp was the vector for attacks earlier this year which, if successful, grant access to a victim's device. Given India's rocky relationship with Facebook following the past ban on its Internet.org program, and pushback to its current efforts to introduce WhatsApp Pay, the situation is fairly explosive at this point. The software -- called Pegasus -- was developed by an Israeli firm.

India is asking WhatsApp to explain link

But the government is said to have known about Pegasus before link

It may also have spread into other apps link

While other government officials worldwide are said to have been targets for Pegasus clients link

In other India hack news: Details of 1.3M hacked credit card details were reportedly put on sale and the country's newest nuclear power plant was the victim of a cyber attack