WhatsApp has disclosed and fixed a massive security flaw in the messaging platform.<\/p>\n
As reported by\u00a0ZDNet<\/strong><\/a>, the flaw allowed attackers to take over anyone\u2019s WhatsApp account by simply calling them using a video call.<\/p>\n If a WhatsApp user answered the call, the attackers could take over their account using a malformed Real-time Transport Protocol packet.<\/p>\n This corrupted the WhatsApp app\u2019s\u00a0heap memory, and the attacks could be used against both iOS and Android users.<\/p>\n Google security researcher Natalie Silvanovich found the bug in August, and\u00a0WhatsApp fixed it on 28 September for Android. WhatsApp for iOS was fixed on 3 October.<\/p>\n Fortunately, there are no reported cases of the exploit being used against ordinary users \u2013 but those who do not answer calls from unknown contacts potentially saved themselves from the attack.<\/p>\n WhatsApp has disclosed and fixed a massive security flaw in the messaging platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":91987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[25671,25672,12509],"class_list":["post-123217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-security-flaw","tag-video-calling","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0How to get your deleted files back after Windows 10 update<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"