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

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 ...

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 ...

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WhatsApp today is much more than just a messaging app—it’s used for money transfers, video calls, and sharing important ...

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 ...

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has alerted WhatsApp users about a new threat campaign, exploiting a technique called 'GhostPairing' to hijack accounts.

GhostPairing is a sophisticated social engineering attack that abuses WhatsApp's legitimate multi-device linking functionality. Malicious actors trick users into unknowingly pairing an attacker's ...

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