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Saudi Prince Allegedly Hacked World's Richest Man Jeff Bezos Using WhatsApp
2020-01-22 05:30

The iPhone of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, was reportedly hacked in May 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message from the personal account of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Guardian newspaper revealed today. The mysterious file was sent when crown prince Salman and Bezos were having a friendly WhatsApp conversation, and it's 'highly probable' that it exploited an undisclosed zero-day vulnerability of WhatsApp messenger to install malware on Bezos's iPhone.

Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia accused of hacking Jeff Bezos' phone with malware-laden WhatsApp message
2020-01-22 00:31

Candid pictures used to threaten Amazon boss Jeff Bezos were exposed not by his current paramour's brother, as some believe, but through a sophisticated hacking operation personally directed by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, The Guardian suggests. The paper today claims to have been told by anonymous sources that Bezos' phone was hacked using a WhatsApp message from the personal account of bin Salman himself.

What's that? Encryption's OK now? UK politicos Brexit from Whatsapp to Signal
2019-12-20 14:00

Take a break from calling for the end of e2e, so they can switch encrypted chat apps It's not just the European Union the UK's ruling party wishes to leave. According to the Guardian, the recently...

Vulnerability in WhatsApp Allows Attackers to Crash Group Chats
2019-12-17 14:40

WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is only secure if you don't have the encryption keys. But researchers at Check Point Research developed a method of discovering the encryption keys, a produced a...

WhatsApp chaps rapped for crap app group chat zap: Infosec bods find a way to nuke messages, fix issued
2019-12-17 11:00

Good news for Check Point; less so for blabbermouths with regrets Security investigators say they have uncovered a vulnerability in WhatsApp that will gladden the heart of anyone who's ever...

Destroyed: A method of destroying Whatsapp group chats forever, say infosec bods of vuln patch
2019-12-17 11:00

Good news for Check Point; less so for blabbermouths with regrets Security investigators say they have uncovered a vulnerability in WhatsApp that will gladden the heart of anyone who's ever...

This Bug Could Have Let Anyone Crash WhatsApp Of All Group Members
2019-12-17 03:04

WhatsApp, the world's most popular end-to-end encrypted messaging application, patched an incredibly frustrating software bug that could have allowed a malicious group member to crash the...

WhatsApp Will Take Legal Action Against Automated or Bulk Messaging
2019-12-13 14:55

Messaging platform WhatsApp this week announced plans to take legal action against individuals and companies that abuse the platform for bulk messaging. read more

EU to Relaunch Push to Regulate WhatsApp, Skype on Privacy
2019-12-03 15:47

The EU will relaunch its deadlocked effort to more closely regulate internet phone and message services such as WhatsApp, Skype and Messenger, a top bloc official said on Tuesday. read more

Many Apps Impacted by GIF Processing Flaw Patched Recently in WhatsApp
2019-11-26 08:26

Trend Micro security researchers have discovered thousands of Android applications impacted by the GIF processing vulnerability that was patched recently in WhatsApp. read more