Syrian government-backed hackers are reportedly targeting political enemies using Android surveillance malware distributed in trojanized versions of messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram. Unveiled by researchers at security firm Lookout at the recent Black Hat Europe conference, the SilverHawk malware is thought to have been...
WhatsApp announced this week that it has released a fix for a bug that could have allowed attackers to take over the app once a call is answered. The flaw, found both in iOS and Android versions of the app, was discovered last August by...
WhatsApp recently disclosed in an email that it has built a system to store the payment data of Indian users domestically, in compliance with the Reserve Bank of India’s new directive. It is said that by complying with India’s storage norms, the Facebook-owned messaging firm...
Facebook’s David Marcus last Wednesday made some scathing remarks about WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton over his revelations on Mark Zuckerberg in a Forbes interview published this week. Acton said that Zuckerberg had been in a rush to profit from WhatsApp that he acted to undermine the...
Paytm, India’s largest digital payments company, is reportedly adopting the strategy of snitching to gain advantage over its competitors such as Google Pay. The Noida-based company recently wrote to the National Payments Corporation of India (NCPI) and reported that Google had been profiting off its customers...
WhatsApp recently informed its users that messages that they back up to Google Drive will not be protected by end-to-end encryption that the messaging platform offers. According to a post on the website of the Facebook-owned app, it is the cloud provider’s responsibility to protect the...
Checkpoint researchers recently disclosed a vulnerability which can allow attackers to alter messages in a WhatsApp chat to appear that it came from another user who is not part of the group, or sending private messages that can be seen by only one person, but...
Cisco Talos researchers warned this week that a hacking campaign that uses fake versions of Telegram and WhatsApp to push data-stealing malware onto iPhones is currently active and have already claimed thirteen victims in India. The attackers reportedly use an open-source mobile device management (MDM) software...
Austrian activist Max Schrems, who has already been previously involved in a legal battle with Facebook, has recently filed complaints against Google, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for using a “take it or leave it” approach when imposing their terms of service on users. According to Schrems,...
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is reportedly raising the minimum age for users in Europe from 13 to 16 in preparations for the GDPR which will be coming into force May 25. Within the next few weeks, WhatsApp will be asking European users to confirm if they are indeed...