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Creator of the growing Telegram messenger encourages users to abandon as soon as possible use of WhatsApp (“Vacap”), since this service is due existing vulnerabilities will experience problems in security. This was reported by TASS.
Why you need to remove WhatsApp
In May 2019, on his channel in Telegram, Durov already warned users about WhatsApp vulnerabilities that would become more apparent, and security problems will arise again and again. In addition, he talked about another discovered this week the Vatsap vulnerability, which will easily allow hackers or intelligence agencies gain access to all data users, including private messages, photos and videos. And for this, just sending you some the video and your data will immediately be in the hands of the attacker.
WhatsApp – “Trojan Horse” involuntarily
The creator of Telegram also noted that these problems affect not only information transmitted through WhatsApp, but also all data on the smartphone where this messenger is installed. Essentially in in the hands of intruders, the application acts as a Trojan horse “, which not only accesses WhatsApp messages, but and reveal to them all the information available on the smartphone. it a real disaster for the user, especially if the smartphone tied to banking services, which, as you understand, a tidbit for hackers.
Durov emphasizes that the developers of WhatsApp are “Watsup”, which owned by Facebook not intentionally allowed education vulnerabilities that make it possible to spy on users. He also believes that thanks to WhatsApp’s existing policy the near future should not improve the situation, so whatsapp it is worth deleting if the user does not want a certain moment his private messages, photos and videos became publicly available.
Earlier, ESOREITER talked about one pair from Novorossiysk, which faced a mysterious phenomenon: settled in their phones “drum”, which through WhatsApp not only intervened in their correspondence, but also followed the young people.
Andrey Vetrov
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