Paranoid WhatsApp users rejoice: Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle
Meta also replaces a legacy C++ media-handling security library with Rust
Security27 Jan 2026 | 35
Ofcom probes Meta over WhatsApp info it was legally required to provide
UK watchdog investigates accuracy of data handed over for SMS market review
Legal23 Jan 2026 | 18
Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts
And it's especially dangerous because the code works
Cyber-crime22 Dec 2025 | 21
CISA warns spyware crews are breaking into Signal and WhatsApp accounts
Attackers sidestep encryption with spoofed apps and zero-click exploits to compromise 'high-value' mobile users
Cyber-crime25 Nov 2025 | 34
Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw
Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harms
Research19 Nov 2025 | 67
Attackers targeting unpatched Cisco kit notice malware implant removal, install it again
Infosec in brief PLUS: Cyber-exec admits selling secrets to Russia; LastPass isn't checking to see if you're dead; Nation-state backed Windows malware; and more
Security02 Nov 2025 | 1
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WhatsApp's former security boss claims reporting infosec failings led to ousting
Meta shrugs off allegations of improper dismissal, ignoring privacy and security
Legal08 Sep 2025 | 12
WhatsApp warns of 'attack against specific targeted users'
Infosec In brief PLUS: Microsoft ends no-MFA Azure access; WorkDay attack diverts payments; FreePBX warns of CVSS 10 flaw; and more
Security01 Sep 2025 | 4
Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console
Infosec In Brief PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more!
Security10 Aug 2025 | 6
Italy says Meta may be violating law with AI in WhatsApp
Competiton regulator smells abuse of a dominant market position, Zuckercorp claims all is well
AI + ML30 Jul 2025 | 4
Meta calls €200M EU fine over pay-or-consent ad model 'unlawful'
'Deserves fair compensation for the valuable and innovative services'? Which ones are those then?
Personal Tech03 Jul 2025 | 65
Don't open that JPEG in WhatsApp for Windows. It might be an .EXE
What a MIME field
Patches08 Apr 2025 | 29
Russia's Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts
updated FSB cyberspies venture into a new app for espionage, Microsoft says
Security16 Jan 2025 | 4
WhatsApp finally fixes View Once flaw that allowed theft of supposedly vanishing pics
And it only took four months, tut
Security10 Dec 2024 | 22
India slaps Meta with five-year ban on sharing info from WhatsApp for ads
Shouldn't have abused messaging dominance, Zuck
Public Sector19 Nov 2024 | 6
NatWest blocks bevy of apps in clampdown on unmonitorable comms
From guidance to firm action... no more WhatsApp, Meta's Messenger, Signal, Telegram and more
Security14 Nov 2024 | 25
WhatsApp may expose the OS you use to run it – which could expose you to crooks
Updated Meta knows messaging service creates persistent user IDs that have different qualities on each device
Research16 Oct 2024 | 16
WhatsApp still working on making View Once chats actually disappear for all
Updated So far it's more like View Forever
Patches18 Sep 2024 | 16
WhatsApp's 'View Once' could be 'View Whenever' due to a flaw
Video It promised vanishing messages, but now 'it's privacy theater'
Security09 Sep 2024 | 8
Google to relocate some US jobs to India and Mexico
Asia in brief Plus: Taiwan's subsea cables, Paytm says goodbye to its CEO, China uses WhatsApp despite roadblocks, and more.
Systems06 May 2024 | 7
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy
Platforms should not confront users with 'binary choice' over personal data use
Security18 Apr 2024 | 73
Zuck uses India visit to increase Meta's transactional traction
WhatsApp gets better at taking money and so does Meta with verified accounts for biz
Software21 Sep 2023 |
Brit healthcare body rapped for WhatsApp chat sharing patient data
Time for a proper secure clinical image transfer system, perhaps?
Security03 Aug 2023 | 69
India to send official whassup to WhatsApp after massive spamstorm
In a weird way, we can blame this on AI being a better bet than blockchain
Security12 May 2023 | 5
Singapore tells its people: Go forth and block those ads
As it preps to launch WhatsApp scam-shredder
Personal Tech25 Apr 2023 | 32
Meta chops another 10,000 employees, closes 5,000 vacancies
The Year of Efficiency may also include sending engineers back into the office
Personal Tech14 Mar 2023 | 60
Accidental WhatsApp account takeovers? It's a thing
Blame it on phone number recycling (yes, that's a thing, too)
Security21 Feb 2023 | 59
US stalkerware developer fined $410,000 and ordered to modify apps so they reveal spying
Creepy developer offers evasive apps that track victims, crack their cloud storage, enable harassment and worse
Personal Tech07 Feb 2023 | 12
Ireland’s privacy watchdog fines WhatsApp €5.5 million
You’ve got 6 months to get into compliance, it tells yak-yak app
Security20 Jan 2023 | 5
What's up with WhatsApp? Messaging platform suffers outage in the UK
Updated Massive spike in user reports on DownDetector, no word on cause
Off-Prem25 Oct 2022 | 28
Financial watchdogs want to know what traders are talking about on WhatsApp
Keen interest in messaging platform follows $2 billion fines in US
Security13 Oct 2022 | 28
Ever suspected bankers used WhatsApp comms at work? $1.8b says you're right
Updated Thought shadow IT at your office was bad? Try enforcing workplace device policies on hedge fund traders
Security28 Sep 2022 | 66
You'll soon be able to ghost a WhatsApp group without making everyone hate you
Well, until they find out that you've left, but at least they won't be immediately notified of your every move
Offbeat10 Aug 2022 | 25
WhatsApp boss says no to AI filters policing encrypted chat
'What's being proposed is that we ... read everyone's messages. I don't think people want that'
Personal Tech02 Aug 2022 | 52
Heineken says there’s no free beer, warns of phishing scam
WhatsApp messages possibly the worst Father's Day present in the world
Security15 Jun 2022 | 27
Meta to squeeze money from WhatsApp with Cloud API for businesses
How to make a free messaging platform bought for $22 billion profitable
Applications20 May 2022 | 29
Hamas-linked cyber-spies 'target high-ranking Israelis'
Sensitive info swiped from Windows and Android devices, according to report
Security06 Apr 2022 | 6
WhatsApp emits extension to detect tampering with desktop web apps
Code Verify tool confers with Cloudflare to warn of any shenanigans
Security10 Mar 2022 | 12
Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike resigns, leaves WhatsApp co-founder to run things until a successor is named
Departure comes as app courts controversy by integrating private cryptocurrency scheme
Security11 Jan 2022 | 62
Still reeling from the Great Facebook Blackout of 2021? Turns out Zuck is not the worst offender
Uswitch's survey may surprise you – or not. Depends how much you like Reddit
Bootnotes11 Nov 2021 | 4
NSO fails once again to claim foreign sovereign immunity in WhatsApp spying lawsuit
US appeals court allows legal battle to resume, says it will be an 'easy case'
Security09 Nov 2021 | 27
WhatsApp's got your back(ups) with encryption for stored messages
Global messaging giant extends security and privacy to Google Drive and Apple iCloud
Security14 Oct 2021 | 6
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram deplatform themselves: Services down globally
Updated Did someone at Menlo Park flick the wrong switch?
Networks04 Oct 2021 | 141
Element's latest bridge for Matrix: 'All the good stuff from WhatsApp, without the less good Facebook stuff'
For when it's time to kick that shadow IT habit
SaaS09 Sep 2021 | 3
Can WhatsApp moderators really read your encrypted texts? Yes ... if you forward them to the abuse dept
Where did people think spam and harassment reports were going?
Security07 Sep 2021 | 24
Facebook: Let us tell you WhatsApp – we don't want to pay that €225m GDPR fine
Zuckerborg plans to appeal Irish data protection slap
Legal02 Sep 2021 | 32
India, Twitter brawl in public as latest content rules begin to bite
Government lashes WhatsApp, too, in free speech vs sovereignty debate
Personal Tech28 May 2021 | 21
WhatsApp sues India over new law requiring ‘traceability’ of messages
Facebook-owned messaging service says – without irony – that people want companies to hold less personal information
Legal27 May 2021 | 9
WhatsApp: Share your data with Facebook, or we'll make our own app useless to you
Zuck gets tough just as Germany blocks privacy policy roll-out
Personal Tech11 May 2021 | 78
Indian government slams Facebook over WhatsApp 'privacy' update, wants its own Europe-style opt-out switch
Updated Nation's IT ministry wants what Brussels is having
Personal Tech19 Jan 2021 | 27
Signal boost: Secure chat app is wobbly at the moment. Not surprising after gaining 30m+ users in a week, though
Updated Install base explodes following WhatsApp 'privacy' update, Musk endorsement
Security15 Jan 2021 | 121
If you're a WhatsApp user, you'll have to share your personal data with Facebook's empire from next month – or stop using the chat app
Updated If you don't agree then, well, you'll just have to use the infinitely better Signal
Personal Tech06 Jan 2021 | 143
Israeli spyware maker NSO channels Hollywood spy thrillers in appeal for legal immunity in WhatsApp battle
In latest court bout, snooper biz seems to ask: Are you sure you want to open this can of worms?
Security17 Nov 2020 | 27
Facebook is leaky, creepy, and trashy. Now it wants to host some of your customer data
Reveals hosting service for WhatsApp Business API and gives its partners reasons to be fearful
SaaS23 Oct 2020 | 22
Chap beats rap in WhatsApp zap flap: Russian banker walks from insider trading case after deleting software
Brit financial watchdogs foxed by not guilty verdict
Security01 Oct 2020 | 24
WhatsApp India to push pensions, insurance and loans
And use the experience as a template for new products everywhere
Personal Tech23 Jul 2020 |
Judge green-lights Facebook, WhatsApp hacking lawsuit against spyware biz NSO, unleashing Zuck's lawyers
Legal discovery team could turn up some very interesting, and possibly embarrassing details
Security17 Jul 2020 | 10
Whatsapp blamed own users for failure to keep phone number repo off Google searches
This story also mentions QR codes for maximum facepalm effect
Security12 Jun 2020 | 80
Spyware slinger NSO to Facebook: Pretty funny you're suing us in California when we have no US presence and use no American IT services...
Malware maker urges judge to dump lawsuit over WhatsApp phone snooping
Security01 May 2020 | 46
Spyware maker NSO can't claim immunity, Facebook lawyers insist – it's time to face the music
Software developers aren't nation states, antisocial giant points out
Security24 Apr 2020 | 44
Who's essential right now? Medicos, of course. Food producers, natch. And in Singapore social media workers have made the list
The spicy memes must flow even under new ‘circuit breaker’ corona-crackdown
Legal08 Apr 2020 | 11
NSO Group: Facebook tried to license our spyware to snoop on its own addicts – the same spyware it's suing us over
Antisocial network sought surveillance tech to boost its creepy Onavo Protect app, it is claimed
Security03 Apr 2020 | 21
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