WhatsApp, the private messaging app, is becoming quite a popular target for attackers and governments to spy on users. The app is used by 1.5 billion people globally.
While it touts itself as secure end-to-end encryption, many security issues have been discovered. Earlier this year a zero-day vulnerability was found and was exploited, allowing hacker to inject spyware onto victims phones.
And now, Facebook just patched a new vulnerability that could allow remote-code-execution or DDoS on victims. Patch!
Read more here:
Facebook advisory
CVE-2019-11931 details
WhatsApp Remote Code Execution Triggered by Videos------------------------------
Jeannette
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