Bas Bosschert, a self-billed “consultant/sysadmin/entrepreneur,” has demonstrated a proof-of-concept exploit that shows how the locally stored message database ...

Most major platforms have dealt with large-scale data leaks tied to weak or unprotected APIs. You've seen this play out with Facebook, X and even Dell. The pattern is always the same. A feature meant ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna and SBA Research did something pretty astonishing: they were able to retrieve all existing WhatsApp numbers. In fact, they were able to view and analyze an ...

India’s competition watchdog has ordered WhatsApp to stop sharing user data with other Meta units for advertising purposes for five years and also levied a fine of $25.4 million for antitrust ...

The lotusbail NPM package steals WhatsApp credentials, messages, and contacts, and provides persistent access to the victims’ accounts.

Researchers from the University of Vienna have quietly compiled a digital directory so vast it contains the personal details of nearly half the global population. The team claims to have scraped the ...

WhatsApp has suddenly been caught in a damaging fight with Elon Musk—and unfortunately for Meta’s mega-messenger, the battleground is on X, where Musk with his 185 million followers is hard to beat.

WhatsApp Ireland Ltd appealed a €225 million ($236 million) fine to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Tuesday, the European Union’s highest court of appeal. The company, owned by ...

Q: What’s the difference between Signal and WhatsApp, and should I switch? A: Until recent news involving the Signal app, it was a relatively unknown messaging platform to many nontechnical users ...