WhatsApp has a critical problem on iPhones and those with the Android operating system, it was revealed today by computer security researchers at a Black Hat conference. More precisely, according to the existing vulnerability within the WhatsApp application, hackers can send fake messages in our name to other people without us knowing that this has happened, which is a very serious problem.
WhatsApp has no less than three different methods by which the messaging platform can be exploited to send fake messages on our behalf, so the problem is an extremely serious one. Both methods exploit existing functions within the applications at the moment, more precisely the citation function, and the function of resending messages via WhatsApp, both of which can have the messages intercepted and modified.
WhatsApp. CAREFUL! CRITICAL Problem Announced, What to KNOW
You can see in the video clip at the beginning of this article how easily a message received in WhatsApp can be modified to be re-sent with another content, although normally the application does not allow this. The WhatsApp company was notified a year ago about these very serious problems of its platform, but unfortunately it has not solved them until now, so they were made public so that everyone knows about their existence.
The only good part of this very serious problem is that only the web version of WhatsApp has this problem, so phones should still be safe. Of course, there are many people who use the web version of the WhatsApp application to send messages, so all these people are in danger of having their messages modified by hackers who know how to exploit these very serious vulnerabilities.
WhatsApp will most likely fix the issues through updates that it can make directly from its servers for the web version of the platform, so that everyone can be kept safe.
