It seems that we must have the fly on the ear of WhatsApp again, and it is that apparently our conversations are not yet as safe as they should be. A Israeli company (we already know what Israelis like to investigate) just discover a bug that would allow modifying any WhatsApp message in any group ... After the jump we give you all the details of this great security problem that the guys on WhatsApp face.
According to the guys from CHeck Point Software Technologies (Israeli cybersecurity company), the messaging application WhatsApp would have a bug that would allow modifying the messages we exchange in the application. The modification could even replace them to pass one message through another, that is, they can put things in our conversation that we haven't said, and this is possible thanks to an error in the app's own code. And all this seems to affect mainly the WhatsApp groups that we have, since the operation of this impersonation It could be done thanks to the reply function of the groups, a function that would later allow the modification of any reply text within the conversation.
You know, just by being careful you will already be ruling out many problems. Know who the person is on the other side of our conversation, avoid talking to strangers, and report all spam we receive. The guys at WhatsApp are not interested (and more so with the great competition in the messaging application market) at all with this type of information, so I do not doubt that they will end up solving any bug that may cause security problems for their users. Yes indeed, Does anyone think that our data is 100% safe? Are you sure that no one outside has access to everything that passes through your devices?
