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whatsappinstant messaging app Target, has always been involved in controversy for allegedly collecting data from its users and then selling it to third parties. This conflicting policy has caused alternatives in the market to try to win over their public by identifying the problems the app has and the one found by the CEO. Telegram To date, this will be one of the most serious incidents.
Through publication on the official channel Telegram, Pavel Durov -Founder and current director of the company behind a competing app whatsapp- pointed out that a security issue discovered by his adversary would make it clear that hackers could have full access to the files stored on the user’s mobile phone through this application.
Whatsapp serious crash
Durov mentions that all Hacker attack the user’s mobile device and get all his information – send a malicious video to the user or simply start a video call using whatsapp. To make matters worse, according to the Russian businessman, this non-security vulnerability could not be fixed even by downloading the latest version of the application.
From what Durov explains, the security issue whatsapp the exact same one was discovered in 2018, then another one in 2019 and another one in 2020, so this is a persistent bug that has not yet been finally resolved. This vulnerability even goes back to 2017 when end-to-end encryption on the platform.
“Every year we hear about a problem in whatsapp which puts everything on users’ devices at risk. This means that there is almost certainly a new security hole already there. These problems are not accidental: they are laid down by backdoors. If a backdoor is found and needs to be removed, another one is added.”mentioned Durov.
Critical WhatsApp issue affecting all users
The Russian businessman points out that this decree applies to absolutely all people who have installed whatsapp on the respective mobile phones. “It doesn’t matter if you are the richest person in the world: if you have WhatsApp installed on your phone, all your data from all the applications on your device will be available, as it turns out. Jeff Bezos in 2020″Durov sentenced.
Finally, the founder Telegram mentioned that this report is not intended to remove users from whatsapp with the intention of porting them to your platform. Durov He says all he wants is for people to know that “WhatsApp has been a spy tool for 13 years, so you removed it from your devices years ago”.
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