WhatsApp users beware, caution is in order, a flaw in the application was discovered by an Israeli researcher. It mainly affects the web version.
This is the CheckPoint society in which officiates Kasif Dekel, the Israeli researcher behind the discovery, which made public yesterday flaw. A flaw in the web version of WhatsApp allow an attacker to infect some clever computer of the targeted user and take control.WhatsApp: the vulnerable web application to piracy
WhatsApp is the instant messaging application used by almost a billion people in the world. It allows users to communicate through written messages or even voice, internet, free. The flaw discovered by security researcher specifically affecting the web application WhatsApp, available for Android since the beginning of the year and more recently for iOS. It allows users to access their messages from a computer Internet browser and is used by about 200 million people, as many potential targets for hackers.An update to fix the flaw
To exploit this flaw, dubbed "MaliciousCard", the intruder to send a contact card (vCard) accompanied by a malicious code to the user that it has targeted. In this form it seems perfectly normal but when he opens it, the code is downloaded into the computer and allows the hacker to take control and even steal data.
The company had warned CheckPoint WhatsApp the teams of this fault in late August. A week later the parade had been found and an update deployed. But to remove the danger still have to download this update. "The massive exploitation of this vulnerability could have affected millions of users," the company explained. His charge of security research, Oded Vanunu, adding, "Fortunately, WhatsApp responded quickly and responsibly to deploy an initial mitigation against exploitation of this issue in all Web clients, pending a client update WhatsApp ".
This is the CheckPoint society in which officiates Kasif Dekel, the Israeli researcher behind the discovery, which made public yesterday flaw. A flaw in the web version of WhatsApp allow an attacker to infect some clever computer of the targeted user and take control.WhatsApp: the vulnerable web application to piracy
WhatsApp is the instant messaging application used by almost a billion people in the world. It allows users to communicate through written messages or even voice, internet, free. The flaw discovered by security researcher specifically affecting the web application WhatsApp, available for Android since the beginning of the year and more recently for iOS. It allows users to access their messages from a computer Internet browser and is used by about 200 million people, as many potential targets for hackers.An update to fix the flaw
To exploit this flaw, dubbed "MaliciousCard", the intruder to send a contact card (vCard) accompanied by a malicious code to the user that it has targeted. In this form it seems perfectly normal but when he opens it, the code is downloaded into the computer and allows the hacker to take control and even steal data.
The company had warned CheckPoint WhatsApp the teams of this fault in late August. A week later the parade had been found and an update deployed. But to remove the danger still have to download this update. "The massive exploitation of this vulnerability could have affected millions of users," the company explained. His charge of security research, Oded Vanunu, adding, "Fortunately, WhatsApp responded quickly and responsibly to deploy an initial mitigation against exploitation of this issue in all Web clients, pending a client update WhatsApp ".
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