Sometimes you need to check a text without the pressure of replying. These clever tricks keep those blue ticks away while you ...

Dead phones during emergencies are dangerous, but discovering your “private” messages aren’t actually private? That’s a different kind of crisis entirely. A massive class-action lawsuit filed January ...

Ripple effect: Questions about whether WhatsApp's encryption works as Meta describes have taken center stage in a new international lawsuit filed in a US federal court, where plaintiffs allege that ...

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End-to-end encryption (nicknamed E2EE) has been a major selling point of Meta's WhatsApp messenger since the feature was introduced in 2016. In short, true E2EE ensures that texts, calls, images, and ...

Meta’s end-to-end encrypted messaging app is used by billions of people. Here’s how to make sure you’re one of the most locked-down ones out there. Meanwhile, in November, Austrian researchers plugged ...

Researchers warn of a new WhatsApp “GhostPairing” attack that silently links attacker devices to accounts, enabling message spying without users knowing. Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana ...

A malicious package in the Node Package Manager (NPM) registry poses as a legitimate WhatsApp Web API library to steal WhatsApp messages, collect contacts, and gain access to the account. A fork of ...

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WhatsApp has announced a bunch of new features right in time for the holiday season, and the most notable addition is something that the company thinks “will make voicemails a thing of the past.” In ...

Attackers behind a self-propagating malware campaign targeting Brazilian financial institutions have accelerated and upgraded their malicious activity, using artificial intelligence (AI) to spawn a ...