Security News
Facebook recently patched a vulnerability in WhatsApp for Android that may have allowed hackers to execute arbitrary code and gain access to sensitive user data by sending specially crafted GIF...
A double-free bug could allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution; users are encouraged to update to a patched version of the messaging app.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but a GIF is worth a thousand pictures. Today, the short looping clips, GIFs are everywhere—on your social media, on your message boards, on your chats,...
A team of Canadian cybersecurity researchers has uncovered a sophisticated and targeted mobile hacking campaign that is targeting high-profile members of various Tibetan groups with one-click...
Mistakenly sent a picture to someone via WhatsApp that you shouldn't have? Well, we've all been there, but what's more unfortunate is that the 'Delete for Everyone' feature WhatsApp introduced two...
Apple expands bug bounties, and more from Vegas this week Black Hat Here's a quick summary of some important infosec happenings from inside and outside the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas on...
Attack vectors disclosed last year are still fully exploitable, researchers demoed at Black Hat USA 2019.
Yesterday, I blogged about a Facebook plan to backdoor WhatsApp by adding client-side scanning and filtering. It seems that I was wrong, and there are no such plans. The only source for that post...
This article points out that Facebook's planned content moderation scheme will result in an encryption backdoor into WhatsApp: In Facebook's vision, the actual end-to-end encryption client itself...
The issue, present on Android versions, is similar to the known man-in-the-disk attack vector.