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“Free UK visa” offers on WhatsApp are fakes

July 4, 2022 - A student friend recently shared a WhatsApp message, unsure if it was scam. The message claims to offer an easy to...

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WhatsApp spam offers up “B&Q Father’s Day Contest 2022”

June 10, 2022 - Father’s Day in the UK (June 19) is almost upon us, and scammers are taking advantage of it—and the fractional possibility...

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WhatsApp accounts hijacked by call forwarding

June 1, 2022 - In a short post on LinkedIn Rahul Sasi, founder and CEO of CloudSEK, explains how WhatsApp account takeovers are possible. The methods...

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Watch out for fake WhatsApp “New Incoming Voicemessage” emails

April 7, 2022 - Thanks to the Threat Intelligenceteam for their help with this article. Security researchers from Armorblox, a cybersecurity company specializing in email-based...

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URI spoofing flaw could phish WhatsApp, Signal, Instagram, and iMessage users

March 31, 2022 - Update: We were informed by Sick Codes that, although Signal already has a fix for this URI flaw here, it hasn’t...

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Here’s what data the FBI can get from WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and more

December 1, 2021 - Not every secure messaging app is as safe as it would like us to think. And some are safer than others....

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Facebook shoots own foot, hits Instagram and WhatsApp too

October 5, 2021 - Mark Zuckerberg was left counting the personal cost of bad PR yesterday (about $6 billion, according to Bloomberg) on a day...

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WhatsApp hit with €225 million fine for GDPR violations

September 2, 2021 - WhatsApp was hit with a €225 million fine for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s sweeping data...

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WhatsApp reverses course, will not limit app functionality

June 1, 2021 - WhatsApp, the end-to-end encrypted messaging service that has lost users, its founders, and a large amount of public goodwill, issued a...

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WhatsApp calls and messages will break unless you share data with Facebook

May 14, 2021 - WhatsApp told users last week that there was no need for alarm regarding an upcoming privacy policy deadline, as users who...

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