WhatsApp has a very dangerous problem discovered by a group of researchers in computer security, they managed to exploit a vulnerability of the application to do something that seemed impossible. Exactly, yesterday I told you that the messages in the WhatsApp application can be modified by hackers to trick people, but not only the content of the messages can be modified by them, but also the username from which the respective messages are sent.
WhatsApp has revealed this problem now to raise an alarm about the poor security that the application offers to users around the world at the moment. Faced with these revelations, those from WhatsApp responded by saying that the problem is not theirs, and that their message encryption system is perfectly designed to protect users, saying that the technique is similar to the one by which emails can be falsified -hate.
WhatsApp: Talk about the DANGEROUS PROBLEM of the Application
WhatsApp also stated that everything that the security researchers discovered is not a vulnerability of its application, but is due to the use of a modified version of the application, but in their network. The company says it is trying to identify people using modified versions of WhatsApp, but until they discover them, vulnerabilities of this kind can be exploited to distribute fake news, and in some cases they can even lead to crimes.
"This claim has nothing to do with the security of end-to-end encryption, which ensures only the sender and recipient can read messages sent on WhatsApp. We ban accounts that attempt to modify WhatsApp to engage in spammy behavior and we are working with civil society in several countries to educate people about fake news and hoaxes."
WhatsApp tries to suggest that its platform is a safe one, but the discovery of the researchers clearly confirms that it is completely vulnerable to those who want to do harm by any means. WhatsApp will not solve this problem, so the distribution of false information will still be possible, but if we can look at the good side of things, then this is that the messages can only be modified if we are talking about the quoted ones.
