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

According to cybersecurity experts, the attack unfolds in a multi-stage process that bypasses WhatsApp’s standard security ...

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 ...

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 ...

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