WhatsApp, a popular instant messaging platform now owned by Facebook with over 1.5 billion users across the globe has a major vulnerability that has not been fixed completely so far. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at Check Point and was made public in Black Hat 2019, an annual Black Hat security conference.
To prove their claims, the Check Point research team has created a tool that allowed them to provide proof-of-concept. If you’re curious, take a look at the below video to know how their tool works as shown by the team in a demonstration.
Below is a conversation the researchers made as part of testing. While these look funny at first glance, we must be aware of the impacts these kinds of vulnerabilities could cause in real life.
As you can see, the message originally sent was “Great!” which got modified into “I’m going to die in a hospital right now” which indeed depicts how serious of an issue this is.
