WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments To See Who You Message, Engineer Warns Meta About Nations Monitoring Chats: Report

Meta's WhatsApp platform has a vulnerability that reportedly allows the governments to find out who you message. The engineers warned Meta about this WhatsApp vulnerability, saying nations could monitor chats. According to a report by The Intercept, WhatsApp's security team issued an internal warning to colleagues. The report said that despite having WhatsApp's powerful encryption, it remained vulnerable to government surveillance. According to an engineer, government agencies bypassed their encryption to find out which users communicated with each other, their private group memberships and even their locations. The report mentioned that staff feared that Israel had been using this trick to "pick assassination targets in Gaza". Microsoft Outage: Massive Interruption Affect Services Like Bing Search, Copilot, ChatGPT and More Globally, Including India; Check Details.

Governments Spying on People Using WhatsApp Vulnerability:

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