Tag: WhatsApp
Microsoft is Attackers’ Favorite for Brand Phishing Attacks
Technology giant Microsoft continues to be the favorite brand of cybercriminals for phishing attacks. According to Check Point’s Brand Phishing Report for Q3 2021,...
Facebook Outage – Was it a BGP hijack?
Social media platforms are ingrained into the lives of billions of people across the globe and the unavailability of any one of them brings...
Attackers Use Fake FMWhatsapp to Spread Triada Trojan
From data privacy violations to fake applications, WhatsApp has been in the news for various reasons since the beginning of 2021. The popular instant...
Pegasus Spyware – The Ghost in the Machine
The most trending cybersecurity news last month was about the Pegasus Spyware incident. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about Pegasus; remember the...
The Curious Case of WhatsApp and Government of India Highlights the...
Facebook-owned WhatsApp and the Indian government have been at loggerheads since January this year. However, with no party ready to back down, the WhatsApp...
Indian Government Gives 7-days to WhatsApp for Privacy Policy Roll Back
WhatsApp has recently been in a slew of legal battles in India over its latest privacy policy changes. However, it has now been served...
How to Know if You’re Being Stalked by Stalkerware
At a time when everyone is more connected than ever, cybercriminals too have become more active looking for ways to turn an adverse situation...
WhatsApp Trialing Encrypted Chat Backups?
WhatsApp has been feeling the heat of governments and its users for quite some time now. Be it for the “discriminatory policy” labeled by...
This Vulnerability made WhatsApp and Telegram Account Takeover Possible: Check Point
Chat service provider WhatsApp and its competitors like Telegram have always maintained that their products provide end-to-end encryption (E2EE). But the recent turn of...
What the Experts Have to Say on this Data Privacy Day
On this day in 2007, the Council of Europe first initiated the European Data Protection Day. A day to raise awareness about the best...
