WhatsApp, the world's largest messaging platform with a user base of over 2 billion people, has issued an official warning that everyone should know about right now. Those at WhatsApp began to look more seriously at the problem of spam and attacks, which target users of its platform, so that it began to publish warning messages for people, so that they know how to protect themselves .
WhatsApp tells its users that they must be extremely vigilant when they receive messages from people who are not in their contacts because those messages can be malicious. WhatsApp tells all its users, through the message that you can see below, that in this situation, if they suspect that the message may be malicious, they have the option of reporting it as a spam message, thus that it could be deleted from the platform, or banned.
WhatsApp: OFFICIAL WARNING Issued to ALL Phones
WhatsApp it only recently started to speak more seriously about the problems that many people complain about, specifically those regarding the security of the information that is transferred through the platform. The warning above is part of the series of messages with which WhatsApp wants to make people much more attentive to what is happening within the messaging platform, and it is important that the world does not ignore the serious messages coming from the company now.
WhatsApp has not had a very serious role in blocking phishing or spam campaigns within its platform, but with this warning it seems to be asking users for help in this process. However, we are talking about a situation that is not exactly simple for blocking attacks that are taking place, it seems, more and more often within the messaging platform, but the people from WhatsApp at least show that they are interested in doing something now.
WhatsApp has started to be more attentive to what people want from its messaging platform, and this is very good news for all of us because it can bring us many huge changes in the future.
