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WhatsApp, Signal, untraceable security risk (www.techradar.com)

submitted 10 hours ago by Spot@startrek.website to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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Three billion WhatsApp users are at risk - an expert has developed a tool that could spy on everyone, and you would never know about it

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[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Bit too much FUD here.

Traditional antivirus software does not detect protocol-level misuse.

I don't think it ever did... you'd be looking for a (N)IDS for that function

I don't use either application, but I suspect that most of this theory could be used on Jabber clients too...

It's a novel way to do recon, but you'd already need to know much more about a target to be able to use the data.

But... good to know about.