Landfall is embedded in malicious DNG image files that seem to have been sent via WhatsApp, although there is no indication of any new vulnerability with that messaging platform. WhatsApp has been fighting spyware on another front, in a ground-breaking legal battle against leading spyware vendor NSO Group.

It doesn’t appear to require any interaction with victims, a kind of exploit called “zero-click.” Once it infects a phone, Landfall has the kind of sweeping surveillance capabilities found in spyware sold by industry vendors, capable of activating microphone recording or collecting photos and contacts.

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