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ImmuniWebInternational Media Coverage

WhatsApp flaw used to install spyware by simply calling the target

Help Net Security
By Zeljka Zorz for Help Net Security
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

A security vulnerability in the popular Facebook-owned end-to-end encrypted messaging app WhatsApp allowed attackers to install spyware on smartphones without any user interaction, Financial Times has reported.

“Rumors about such security flaws have been circulating for a while already, but few people took them seriously. All corporate users of WhatsApp should urgently launch forensics on their mobile devices to verify whether they were compromised and backdoored,” advised Ilia Kolochenko, Founder, CEO and Chief Architect at ImmuniWeb. Read Full Article


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