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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. While it doesn’t exploit any bugs, this attack does exploit WhatsApp ...

You have been warned. A new attack lets hackers “gain full access in WhatsApp." This uses social engineering to target phone numbers and hack accounts, "without ...

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has developed a new security system to prevent WhatsApp hacking. PTA officials have named the ...

Alphanumeric passwords are on the way ...

A new WhatsApp scam called GhostPairing exploits device-linking features to hijack accounts through social engineering, ...

The Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group Technologies Ltd. today was ordered to pay $167 million in damages to Meta, ending a 6-year court battle after the former was accused of installing spyware ...

Meta must be feeling very confident about the security of its WhatsApp messaging application. The company is co-sponsoring this year's Pwn2Own competition (from ZDI, the Zero Day Initiative group) ...

NSO Group was fined $168 million for hacking WhatsApp users. NSO charged European governments millions of dollars for their spyware platform. The CIA and FBI paid NSO $7.6 million. NSO continued ...