New social engineering attack tricks you into giving away access to your own account. Here’s what you need to know and do.

Threat actors are abusing the legitimate device-linking feature to hijack WhatsApp accounts via pairing codes in a campaign ...

Scammers are working harder than ever to trick people online, but WhatsApp is hitting back in a big way. In the first half of 2025, WhatsApp removed more than 6.8 million accounts tied to global scam ...

A new WhatsApp scam, called GhostPairing, has begun to quietly unsettle cybersecurity researchers as the attack somehow evades the app's most common security me ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Hackers are now using spyware to attack WhatsApp, Signal and other ...

A new attack abusing a legitimate device pairing feature of the app could be used to penetrate employee WhatsApp Groups.

Device-level protection plays a key role as well. Users should enable app lock and chat lock to prevent unauthorised access, especially if the phone is lost or borrowed. Using fingerprint unlock, Face ...

The latest beta tests of the cross-platform messaging app WhatsApp have uncovered a long-awaited new function. Testers for the WhatsApp beta in iOS 25.19.20.74 report they can switch between their ...

Hackers are tricking WhatsApp users into unknowingly entering a code that links the attacker's device to their account, ...

Below are the full details of how the feature works, who can use it, and the quickest way to set it up on your iPhone. WhatsApp has introduced a new iOS feature via the TestFlight beta (version ...