Malicious Android apps masquerading as Google, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and X (formerly Twitter) have been observed to steal users’ credentials from compromised devices. “This malware uses famous Android app icons to mislead users and trick victims into installing the malicious app on their devices,” the SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team said in a recent […]
A U.S. judge has ordered NSO Group to hand over its source code for Pegasus and other remote access trojans to Meta as part of the social media giant’s ongoing litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor. The decision marks a major legal victory for Meta, which filed the lawsuit in October 2019 for using its […]
An updated version of an Android remote access trojan dubbed GravityRAT has been found masquerading as messaging apps BingeChat and Chatico as part of a narrowly targeted campaign since June 2022. “Notable in the newly discovered campaign, GravityRAT can exfiltrate WhatsApp backups and receive commands to delete files,” ESET researcher Lukáš Štefanko said in a […]
WhatsApp, owned by Meta, has threatened to quit the United Kingdom in the event that the government adopts the Online Safety Bill, claiming that the bill would effectively remove its encryption mechanisms. The firm, along with its competitor company Signal and five other applications, said that, in the event that the bill is signed into […]
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 Strýček said in a new analysis. While the first […]
Here’s a roundup of some of the most common tricks that fraudsters use to dupe their victims on WhatsApp – and what you can do to protect yourself against them.
Internet shutdowns are deliberate disturbances to internet access and digital communications. These disruptions are often carried out by governments in an effort to stifle the online speech of dissidents. After demonstrations broke out throughout Iran in September over the execution of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian authorities shut down the internet in order to prevent people […]
In Qatar, the 22nd FIFA World Cup began on November 20, 2022. This event sparked a new wave of cyberattacks. Threat actors targeted unsuspecting individuals with malicious activities that included the FIFA World Cup as a theme. The popularity of the FIFA World Cup is being abused by a number of scams, according to Cyble […]
A free operating system that is similar to Unix and Berkeley Unix is called FreeBSD. It is derived from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which is also called Berkeley Unix. Who is Actually Utilizing FreeBSD? Perhaps a much larger number of individuals than you anticipate. FreeBSD may be found almost everywhere. In […]
A gang of hackers has been responsible for the hacking of WhatsApp in recent days, which resulted in the disclosure of a number of users’ contact information. Not only may they get access to your private information, but they can also steal money from your account. What should you do to prevent it? Take the […]
An unofficial version of the popular WhatsApp messaging app called YoWhatsApp has been observed deploying an Android trojan known as Triada. The goal of the malware is to steal the keys that “allow the use of a WhatsApp account without the app,” Kaspersky said in a new report. “If the keys are stolen, a user […]
Two security flaws in WhatsApp’s chat app for iOS and Android that might have been used to remotely execute malware on the device were recently reported by the company Meta. CVE-2022-36934, which has a severe severity rating (CVSS score of 9.8), affects all Android and iOS versions previous to v2.22.16.12, Business for Android prior to v2.22.16.12, […]
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The famous Cadbury confectionery issued a statement warning its customers about a WhatsApp scam in which threat actors offer consumers a basket of free Easter chocolates, which they can claim through a link attached to this message. The UK-based firm has confirmed that this is not a legitimate offer and users of the messaging app […]
Users of the WhatsApp version for laptops and desktops will now be able to use a browser extension to check the integrity of the software running on their browser. This project was born as part of a collaborative project between Meta and Cloudflare. End-to-end encryption in WhatsApp protects users’ messages from being read by intermediaries, […]
JFrog security teams report finding 5 vulnerabilities in PJSIP, a multimedia communication library developed by Teluu. According to the report, successful exploitation of these flaws would allow threat actors to lead to an arbitrary code execution scenario in applications using this library. This library provides an API that can be used by IP telephony applications, […]
Phishing is one of the main cybersecurity threats today, since virtually anyone in the world uses smartphones, online accounts and other tools despite not having basic notions of computer security and security risks, say specialists in ethical hacking. A growing trend within phishing is the compromise of WhatsApp accounts, the largest instant messaging platform in […]
We all know that social media platforms and instant messaging services are really unfriendly to the privacy of their users, although we are not always clear about how this invasion of our confidential information occurs. However, thanks to the work of Mallory Knodel and the Center for Democracy and Technology, it was possible to know […]
Facebook down? Yes, Facebook is down along with Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR due to DNS-related issues. You are not alone; the social media giant Facebook along with its subsidiaries including Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR are down and suffering ongoing service disruption. The outage seems to have begun at around 5:30 pm […]
Cybersecurity specialists report the detection of a massive phishing campaign in which threat actors pose as WhatsApp employees in order to trick the user into downloading and installing a banking Trojan on their devices. Apparently, the campaign operators pretend to send the user a backup of their conversations and call history, so it is highly […]
The Facebook-owned messaging service plans to roll out the feature to both iOS and Android users in the coming weeks.