{"id":8094,"date":"2018-08-08T13:16:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T11:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=8094"},"modified":"2018-08-08T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T11:16:17","slug":"whatsapp-with-a-new-security-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=8094","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp with a new security issue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2961\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WhatsApp-Spy-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WhatsApp-Spy-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WhatsApp-Spy-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WhatsApp-Spy-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WhatsApp-Spy.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>Whatsapp is facing security issues all the time. The newest<br \/>\none allows MITM attacks where the attacker can alter sent<br \/>\nmessages or hide them in a group chat from certain group<br \/>\nmembers. How the attack works shows the following video.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The company &#8220;Check Point Research&#8221; has made this video and explains how the exploit can be used and shows how the other&#8217;s chats are affected.<\/p>\n<p>They call it the FakeApp vulnerability:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8094-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FakesApp_-A-Vulnerability-in-WhatsApp.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FakesApp_-A-Vulnerability-in-WhatsApp.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FakesApp_-A-Vulnerability-in-WhatsApp.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>You may want to watch the video in fullscreen mode (<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8096\" style=\"vertical-align: -15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FullScreenIcon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"39\" height=\"40\" \/>) in order to recognize the text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatsapp is facing security issues all the time. The newest one allows MITM attacks where the attacker can alter sent messages or hide them in a group chat from certain group members. How the attack works shows the following video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,4,3,19],"tags":[660,2601,250,3040,812,851,3041,1713],"class_list":["post-8094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-2","category-curiosities","category-news","category-thoughts-2","tag-attack","tag-breach","tag-facebook","tag-mitm","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-spoofing","tag-whatsapp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}