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While WhatsApp is the go-to and convenient messaging platform for all of us, it is still prone to a lot of bugs that can make our usage inconvenient. Adding to the list of already exisiting flaws, the newly-discovered one allowed cybercriminals to get unauthorized access to a user’s media by sending GIFs. The New WhatsApp […]
A new vulnerability has surfaced in WhatsApp’s encryption method that allows attackers to alter messages and user identities in group chats. This could prove devastating as attackers could potentially harm people sending false texts. We have already seen how fake messages circulated on WhatsApp took several lives in India which forced the Facebook-owned company to […]
Short Bytes: A security researcher has uncovered a serious flaw in Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging app. This loophole exists in both the desktop and mobile apps. He found that by sending about 4,000 smileys to a target, the WhatApp app starts to slow down and ultimately crashes. According to a security researcher Indrajeet Bhuyan, there is a […]