Alert! WhatsApp’s New Bug Allow Hackers to Modify and Send Fake Messages

WhatsApp, being a top instant messaging application with over 1 billion users around the globe and 60 billion messages sent every day.

Recently, WhatsApp introduced the new feature to restrict spam and fake messages being forwarded by restricting the maximum forward limit to 5.

But now, the researchers at CheckPoint Research, an Israeli cybersecurity firm has identified a new WhatsApp bug that allows the hackers to infiltrate and send messages on the platform.

Additionally, the CheckPoint Research firm warned about the security and stated that this vulnerability of the instant messaging platform WhatsApp could result in creating or spreading misinformation. Indian government additionally asked the WhatsApp to take essential measure for controlling the spread of fake and spam news in the nation.

Users will be uninformed that they are being hacked. The hackers can imitate the individual whose account has been hacked and can send the reply message on personal chats and group messages.

How the WhatsApp’s New Bug Works?

As WhatsApp encrypts the messages that sent via their platform, with a specific end goal to decide how WhatsApp communicates something specific, they initially needed to decode the network request. While messages between clients are secure, a user who received the message still needs to decrypt the message. This enabled CheckPoint to invert the encryption and after that locally decrypt the system solicitations to decide how correspondence is finished.

Since they could perceive what factors were being utilized when a message is sent, they could begin to control the factors keeping in mind the end goal to perceive what could be changed or done. This enabled them to find that they could alter messages or change the way they appeared to confuse recipients.

After this report, WhatsApp stated that “We carefully reviewed this issue and it’s the equivalent of altering an email to make it look like something a person never wrote. This claim has nothing to do with the security of end-to-end encryption, which ensures only the sender and recipient can read messages sent on WhatsApp.”

The CheckPoint researcher’s team also demonstrated the video on how this new bug works.

Take a look at the new Vulnerability in WhatsApp