The guidance stays straightforward: if you receive a message from an unknown number, don't engage. If the message claims to ...

While we’ve seen no public instances of governments having a backdoor into WhatsApp, in May, the Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group was ordered to pay Meta $167 million after it hacked 1,400 of ...

Meta’s messaging platform joins growing list of restricted applications as officials cite data transparency issues ...

It uses strong end-to-end encryption, meaning only the sender and recipient can read messages; not even WhatsApp can access their content. This ensures strong privacy and security ... cyber ...

WhatsApp uses Signal's encryption protocol, so your chats and calls are just as end-to-end encrypted as those on Signal. But the main distinction between Signal and WhatsApp is that the latter ...

In 2022, WhatsApp and Google Play were banned by the Iranian government during nationwide protests after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. Iran restored access to WhatsApp and ...

It ends WhatsApp’s decade-plus run of offering an ad-free messaging and calling experience. Meta, which acquired WhatsApp in 2014, attempted to justify the decision by saying ads will be sequestered ...