
FakesApp: A Vulnerability in WhatsApp

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Research By: Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin and Oded Vanunu As of early 2018, the Facebook-owned messaging application, WhatsApp, has over 1.5 billion users with over one billion groups and 65 billion messages sent every day. With so much chatter, the potential for online scams, rumours and fake news is huge. It doesn’t help then, if… Click to Read More
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