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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A threat actor with affiliations to the cyber warfare division of Hamas has been linked to an “elaborate campaign” targeting high-profile Israeli individuals employed in sensitive defense, law enforcement, and emergency services organizations. “The campaign operators use sophisticated social engineering techniques, ultimately aimed to deliver previously undocumented backdoors for Windows and Android devices,” cybersecurity company […]
A now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in WhatApp’s image filter feature could have been abused to send a malicious image over the messaging app to read sensitive information from the app’s memory. Tracked as CVE-2020-1910 (CVSS score: 7.8), the flaw concerns an out-of-bounds read/write and stems from applying specific image filters to a rogue image and […]
When you think of WhatsApp, other than privacy concerns, the first thing that comes to your mind is chats or free video calls. While it’s not far from the truth at all, the world’s most popular instant messaging app won’t require having a phone connected to work in the near future. You can use WhatsApp […]
One of the most welcomed features of WhatsApp was the ability to delete the messages. Within a window of a few minutes, people can rethink whether they should have hit the send button. Now, WhatsApp is about to take it to the next level. As reported by WABetaInfo, the Facebook-owned instant messaging app is about […]
Ever since the concept of disappearing stories arrived on WhatsApp, the photo-sharing app’s popularity has grown further. It is a mandatory task to upload “WhatsApp Status” videos and photos just like we do for Instagram Stories and Snapchat Stories. Although the feature has been in existence since 2017, we still don’t know how to download […]
Again, WhatsApp has become the target of malicious hacker attacks. According to web application security specialists, a critical vulnerability has been revealed in the instant messaging service that, if exploited, would allow a threat actor to hack a smartphone using only a malicious mp4 file to generate denial of service conditions (DoS) or even remote […]
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 […]
In recent days, multiple reports emerged from data protection experts mentioning that, thanks to an upcoming U.S.-UK agreement, the authorities in these countries would finally have a way to access encrypted messages on instant messaging services such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. According to reports, based on statements from a source very close to the […]
There is currently a wide range of instant messaging services and, according to information security specialists, many have a security measure known as end-to-end encryption, which prevents third parties from being able to access the content of messages between two users. However, this does not mean that our information is completely secure, as hackers can […]
WhatsApp has become a global phenomenon. At the time of writing this article, it is the most popular messaging app globally, with over 1.6 billion users accessing the WhatsApp messenger on a monthly basis. With so many people communicating via this messenger, taking a WhatsApp chat backup has become a necessity. The backup helps users […]
Security firm Check Point Research has discovered a new glitch in the popular messaging app WhatsApp, which allows hackers to obstruct and manipulate messages sent in both private and group chat windows. The new flaw could lead cybercriminals into creating and disseminating fake news, making users believe that it comes from trusted sources. Methods to […]
WhatApp continuity between workstation and smartphone has been a dream of Android users. When the messaging giant released the WhatsApp Web feature back in 2015, the entire community was on top of the world. Little did we know that the web version was not entirely efficient. In order to use it, the Android phone needs […]
If you think that the multimedia files that you receive in your complex, encrypted, secure messaging applications cannot be tampered with, you should think again. Yesterday, Symantec security researchers demonstrated some interesting scenarios of attacks on WhatsApp and Telegram applications for Android, which could allow attackers to spread false news or deceive users when sending […]
Ethical hacking specialists from cybersecurity firm Symantec reported the discovery of a vulnerability that, if exploited, would allow a hacker to access files (such as photos, videos or PDF documents) shared via WhatsApp and Telegram. The vulnerability, dubbed by experts as ‘Media File Jacking’, exists due to the time span between writing a file on […]
The trio of Facebook-owned services – Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp – suffered an outage, with many users complaining that they couldn’t upload or download photos in their feeds and stories. The social media platforms were revived after some time as Facebook confirmed that the outage was due to maintenance operations. Owing to the hours-long outage, […]
Trump is after many things and wants to put an end to a lot of things. This time, the Trump-led administration might ban end-to-end encryption, as administration officials recently met for a meeting regarding the same. According to a report by Politico, Trump officials met at a National Security Council meeting on Wednesday last week, […]
According to personal data protection specialists, the Indian authorities have requested the popular messaging service WhatsApp to digitally fingerprint messages sent through the platform without violating encryption, as this way messages would be traceable, which would facilitate some government intelligence. The Indian government believes that WhatsApp should have the ability to identify the source of […]
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is an ad-free messaging service, but things are about to change from 2020 onwards. At the annual Facebook Marketing Summit held in the Netherlands, Facebook has confirmed that in-app ads will be displayed in the messaging app starting from 2020. Users will see ads within the ‘Status’ feature of WhatsApp as confirmed by […]