12 stories taggedWhatsApp.
WhatsApp's New Scam Alert Reads Your Messages Without Leaving Your Phone
WhatsApp is testing a feature that flags suspicious messages using an AI model that runs entirely on your device. Signal is also rolling out automatic checks to confirm nobody has secretly intercepted your conversations.
Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Exposed WhatsApp Data
A vulnerability in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension could have silently hijacked WhatsApp web data of millions.
A Browser Extension Installed 300 Million Times Had a Flaw That Let Attackers Steal Your WhatsApp Messages
A security hole in Adobe's widely used browser extension meant that simply visiting the wrong website could hand criminals your private messages and contacts.
Adobe's Acrobat Chrome extension leaked WhatsApp Web chats to any website you visited
Researchers at Guardio Labs found a chain of flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-48294, that let any web page silently read messages, contacts and chat lists from WhatsApp Web. Adobe patched the extension within two days.
Australia Logged 2,000 Sextortion Complaints in Six Months. Big Tech Still Isn't Scanning for the Scripts.
Australia's online safety watchdog says the same blackmail messages keep showing up across platforms, and most major tech companies still aren't using the detection tools that already exist.
Tech Giants Failing to Stop Online Sexual Extortion of Young Men, Australian Regulator Warns
Australia's online safety watchdog reviewed Apple, Meta, Google and others and found serious gaps in how they handle child exploitation and 'sextortion' complaints, even as reports keep climbing.
Three flaws in OpenClaw AI assistant let attackers steal passwords and run code on your computer
A researcher chained three now-patched bugs in the OpenClaw personal AI assistant into a full takeover of the host machine, starting from a single WhatsApp message.
WhatsApp Is Letting You Ditch Your Phone Number — Here's What That Means for Your Privacy
The world's most-used messaging app is adding usernames, so strangers no longer need your phone number to reach you. It's a meaningful privacy upgrade, but it comes with a scramble.
US warns Russian spies are still hunting your WhatsApp and Signal accounts
CISA and the FBI say Russian intelligence officers are running fresh phishing campaigns to hijack accounts on messaging apps used by journalists, officials and activists.
WhatsApp Starts Username Reservations, Finally Decoupling Identity From Phone Numbers
The optional handle system lets users be reachable without exposing an E.164 number — a meaningful identifier change for a 3-billion-user directory.
WhatsApp DMs Push VBScript Loaders That Deploy Legitimate RMM Tools
An active campaign abuses WhatsApp Desktop and Web to distribute scripted droppers that install commercial remote-management software across at least ten jurisdictions.
Meta Catches NSO Spear-Phishing on WhatsApp, Asks Court to Hold Vendor in Contempt
The injunction was supposed to keep Pegasus operators away from WhatsApp users. Meta says NSO came back anyway — and is now asking a judge to do something about it.