Jeff Bezos phone hack shows hackers are winning in the ‘arms race’ between governments and tech firms

The phone of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos was reportedly hacked and the Saudi crown prince might have been behind it.Check Point Software, the company that first reported the NSO Group's hack of Whatsapp, tells Business Insider that tens of millions of phones are being backed on a daily basis. There's currently an ongoing arms race going on between hackers, governments and tech companies over cyber vulnerabilities.Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos was the victim of a malware attack. A UN report now suggests with ‘reasonable certainty' that the Saudi crown prince — Mohammed bin Salman — might have been behind it. This is only one example of governments around the world are shelling out billions of dollars for hackers to find vulnerabilities on social networking platforms. Check Point Software

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