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A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats

37 points by iamnothere

by jeroenhd

1 subcomments

Awful reporting. Vague workarounds for an issue "reported by Google Project Zero" without links to said report, but with links to Forbes (who interviewed one of WhatsApp's competitors about WhatsApp's security while their own app doesn't even do proper E2EE). Was there a human involved in publishing this page? If so, was leaving out the link to Project Zero intentional?
Anyway, according to Google Project Zero, the issue has been fixed with a comprehensive fix: https://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/issues/442425914
You can always enable lockdown mode and disable downloading media to protect against undetected vulnerabilities of course, but the bug has been fixed and you just need to update for the problem to go away.

by charcircuit

2 subcomments

What is the actual implication of the attack. That your mobile data might be wasted?

by j45

0 subcomment

Neat tool.
Prolificity (ooh, invented word?) could be more than quantity of words, maybe quality too?