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Legal documents released as part of an ongoing legal tussle between Meta's WhatsApp and NSO Group have revealed that the Israeli spyware vendor used multiple exploits targeting the messaging app...
Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group reportedly used multiple zero-day exploits, including an unknown one named "Erised," that leveraged WhatsApp vulnerabilities to deploy Pegasus spyware in...
The WhatsApp messenger platform has introduced Identity Proof Linked Storage (IPLS), a new privacy-preserving encrypted storage system designed for contact management. [...]
Messaging service creates persistent user IDs that have different qualities on each device An analysis of Meta's WhatsApp messaging software reveals that it may expose which operating system a...
So far it's more like View Forever Updated Meta's efforts to stop people repeatedly viewing WhatsApp’s so-called View Once messages – photos, videos, and voice recordings that disappear from chats...
It promised vanishing messages, but now 'it's privacy theater' Video A popular privacy feature in WhatsApp is "completely broken and can be trivially bypassed," according to developers at...
A privacy flaw in WhatsApp, an instant messenger with over 2 billion users worldwide, is being exploited by attackers to bypass the app's "View once" feature and view messages again. [...]
Meta Platforms on Friday became the latest company after Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI to expose the activities of an Iranian state-sponsored threat actor, who it said used a set of WhatsApp...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a novel phishing campaign that leverages Google Drawings and shortened links generated via WhatsApp to evade detection and trick users into clicking on bogus links designed to steal sensitive information. "The attackers chose a group of the best-known websites in computing to craft the threat, including Google and WhatsApp to host the attack elements, and an Amazon look-alike to harvest the victim's information," Menlo Security researcher Ashwin Vamshi said.
A security issue in the latest version of WhatsApp for Windows allows sending Python and PHP attachments that are executed without any warning when the recipient opens them. WhatsApp blocks multiple file types considered to carry a risk to users but the company tells BleepingComputer that it does not plan to add Python scripts to the list.