WhatsApp is like the biggest messaging platform on the planet, and for all the 2 billion people who use it every day comes an extremely important warning that they should know about right now. I'm talking about the fact that WhatsApp has recently been the target of more and more attacks through which various bad faith people try to steal people's accounts through various methods that are more or less easy to detect from the start.
WhatsApp has been issuing warnings in recent months about the various methods by which hackers try to steal accounts, and one of the most used is aimed at tricking people with messages that seem "official". Some hackers send people messages that seem to come from WhatsApp, both through forms and through the profile picture used, telling people that they have to "confirm" their account with a code received via SMS, only that code allows hackers to log their phones into the platform with the victim's account.
WhatsApp: Major WARNING to ALL People with Phones
WhatsApp is also in the center of attention because another method of stealing accounts is used by hackers with great efficiency, this one assuming the identity of a contact of the victim. The hackers send messages that seem to come from the contact, sometimes a close friend of the victim, and of course they are asked for a prini code by SMS from WhatsApp, under various pretexts, being the one that allows the hackers to activate their account on the phone own.
WhatsApp it also offers people a method to protect their accounts against such attacks, activating 2-step authentication being the best method by which you can protect yourself. By activating this option, even if a person tricks you into providing him with the WhatsApp account activation code in another phone, as long as he does not know the special PIN code set by you to activate the account in another phone, no one can steal the account.
WhatsApp it is the favorite target of hackers because there are many naive people, easy to fool, and after the accounts are stolen, the victims are blackmailed to pay and get access to the account again.
