Hole In WhatsApp For Android Lets Hackers Steal Your Conversations

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As part of what is predominantly an Android security issue, a CTO and consultant has discovered a vulnerability in WhatsApp encryption that could allow another app to access and read all of a user’s chat conversations within it.

Bas Bosschert, the CTO at DoubleThink, has posted his own method for accessing WhatsApp chats, and confirms that the vulnerability still exists after yesterday’s big Android update.

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