WhatsApp is at the center of an extremely important warning that targets billions of people around the world, and this is not the first time it has come for many of those who use the platform every day. More precisely, we are talking about a new warning that focuses on phishing attacks that are still going on all over the world, WhatsApp being a main target for hackers trying to gain access to the accounts of ordinary people.
WhatsApp is a target because there are a lot of people who use the platform all over the world, over 2 billion in number, so there is a very large base of accounts that can be stolen, some relatively easily. The methods by which accounts are stolen vary, but in general hackers take advantage of people's naivety and gain access to their accounts through login attempts and the request for access codes to authorize the devices they want to log into the platform.
WhatsApp: Serious WARNING for Billions of People in the World
WhatsApp even issued official warnings about these situations, but not everyone knows how to react when faced with such a situation, and some people easily stole their accounts. Hackers generally use other stolen accounts to steal new accounts, generally going with the idea of tricking people into using their friends' hacked accounts, which is one of the methods that has been surprisingly successful so far.
WhatsApp has no way to protect people against situations like this, only advising them how to react to protect themselves when they are asked to give up their account access codes. Unfortunately, a lot of people fail to react properly to this type of requests, so every year many WhatsApp accounts are stolen by hackers, so you have to be extremely vigilant about the requests you receive.
WhatsApp asks people not to respond to requests coming from various people through its platform, and to protect their accounts in order not to end up in the situation of having them stolen very easily.
