Alter the text of someone else’s reply, essentially putting words in their mouth.Use the ‘quote’ feature in a group conversation to change the identity of the sender, even if that person is not a member of the group.Our team observed three possible methods of attack exploiting this vulnerability – all of which involve social engineering tactics to fool end-users. It doesn’t help then, if threat actors have an additional weapon in their arsenal to leverage the platform for their malicious intentions.Ĭheck Point Research, however, recently unveiled new vulnerabilities in the popular messaging application that could allow threat actors to intercept and manipulate messages sent in both private and group conversations, giving attackers immense power to create and spread misinformation from what appear to be trusted sources. With so much chatter, the potential for online scams, rumours and fake news is huge. Research By: Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin and Oded VanunuĪs of early 2018, the Facebook-owned messaging application, WhatsApp, has over 1.5 billion users with over one billion groups and 65 billion messages sent every day.
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