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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...