Brazilian cybersecurity researchers from SpiderLabs have reported that a banking trojan, known as “Eternidade Stealer”, is being pushed, leveraging a combination of social engineering and WhatsApp ...

Water Saci and RelayNFC drive advanced Brazil-targeted attacks using WhatsApp worm tactics and real-time NFC payment theft.

A sophisticated malware campaign is making use of WhatsApp to distribute the Eternidade Stealer banking trojan across Brazil, using social engineering tactics and automated message propagation to ...

Threat actors are abusing the legitimate device-linking feature to hijack WhatsApp accounts via pairing codes in a campaign ...

Google says the group’s tools enabled scammers with little technical skill to impersonate agencies like the IRS and the USPS ...

For some time now, companies have been able to contact customers via messaging services. Normally, this requires consent. However, the fact that Amazon is currently sending WhatsApp messages comes as ...

Researchers exploited WhatsApp's API vulnerability to scrape 3.5 billion phone numbers. Learn how this massive data breach ...

A new Android banking trojan named Sturnus can capture communication from end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms like Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram, as well as take complete control of the device.

I went to a wedding last month that was coordinated on WhatsApp. The couple created a “community” that included a group chat and an announcements-only channel. The dozens of attendees—primarily iPhone ...

WhatsApp's mass adoption stems in part from how easy it is to find a new contact on the messaging platform: Add someone's phone number, and WhatsApp instantly shows whether they're on the service, and ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

Researchers have uncovered a WhatsApp privacy flaw that allowed them to discover the 3.5 billion mobile numbers using the app globally, and possibly infer the identities of some of the people behind ...