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India is the largest market for WhatsApp, with over 450 million users - many of whom have in the last couple of weeks received plenty of spam calls from overseas. Might scammers have turned to WhatsApp after conventional carriers hardened up?
E2E encryption means that only the person who stores the data should be able to read the data. Having dealt with E2E encryption of data during transit and at rest, we now turn to the more esoteric case of E2E encryption of data during computation.
WhatsApp will be rolling out three new security features in the coming months, to provide users with increased privacy and control over their messages and to help prevent unauthorized account access and takeover. WhatsApp's new check when moving account to another phone.
"Mobile device malware is one of the biggest threats to people's privacy and security today because it can take advantage of your phone without your permission and use your WhatsApp to send unwanted messages," the Meta-owned company said in an announcement. Called Device Verification, the security measure is designed to help prevent account takeover attacks by blocking the threat actor's connection and allowing the target to use the app without any interruption.
WhatsApp announced today the introduction of several new security features, one of them dubbed "Device Verification" and designed to provide better protection against account takeover attacks. Device Verification prevents malware from using authentication keys stolen from infected mobile devices or via unofficial clients to impersonate accounts and use them to send scam and phishing messages to people in the targeted users' contact lists.
Copycat websites for instant messaging apps like Telegram and WhatApp are being used to distribute trojanized versions and infect Android and Windows users with cryptocurrency clipper malware. "All of them are after victims' cryptocurrency funds, with several targeting cryptocurrency wallets," ESET researchers Lukáš Štefanko and Peter Strý?ek said in a new analysis.
A stranger may be receiving your private WhatsApp messages, and also be able to send messages to all of your contacts - if you have changed your phone number and didn't delete the WhatsApp account linked to it. "If for some reason you no longer want to use WhatsApp tied to a particular phone number, then the best thing to do is transfer it to a new phone number or delete the account within the app."
The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined WhatsApp Ireland €5.5 million after confirming that the messaging service violated the General Data Protection Regulation. On May 25, 2018, the DPC initiated an inquiry into a potential violation of the regulation by WhatsApp following a complaint from a German data subject.
Ireland's data protection authority has fined WhatsApp Ireland €5.5 million for breaches of the GDPR relating to its service and told it comply with data processing laws within six months. Why Ireland? The Irish Data Protection Commissioner is the head regulator for several of the US tech giants, and this is because they have sited their operations in the European Union member state - with its Silicon Valley friendly 12.5 percent corporate tax rate.
The Irish Data Protection Commission on Thursday imposed fresh fines of €5.5 million against Meta's WhatsApp for violating data protection laws when processing users' personal information. The complaint, filed by privacy non-profit NOYB, alleged that WhatsApp breached the regulation by compelling its users to "Consent to the processing of their personal data for service improvement and security" by "Making the accessibility of its services conditional on users accepting the updated Terms of Service."