A sophisticated phishing campaign impersonating WhatsApp Web uses fake meeting links and QR codes to hijack accounts and ...

If you use WhatsApp, you may be targeted by scammers looking to take over your account by pairing their browser to your number. This scheme, dubbed GhostPairing by researchers, uses WhatsApp's device ...

Hackers have found a way to quietly take over WhatsApp accounts without touching passwords, SMS codes, or the app’s end-to-end encryption. Instead of breaking crypto, they are abusing a legitimate ...

The phishing campaign targeted users on WhatsApp, including an Iranian-British activist, and stole the credentials of a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. While it doesn’t exploit any bugs, this attack does exploit WhatsApp ...

Researchers warn of a new WhatsApp “GhostPairing” attack that silently links attacker devices to accounts, enabling message spying without users knowing. Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana ...

Brits have been warned over a new scam targeting WhatsApp users that may give hackers access to your data without you ...

For years, WhatsApp was seen primarily as a mobile-first communication platform—a simple chat app designed for smartphones, ...

Iranian hackers linked to the country’s IRGC have been caught hijacking WhatsApp accounts to spy on “individuals abroad who ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...