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Two security holes expose your phone to a phishing attack

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The threat is transmitted by an attachment in html format and concerns users of Android 9 or earlier reversal

PHISHING

WhatsApp Illustration – Patrick Sison / AP / SIPA

Two critical security flaws have been discovered in the code of WhatsApp’s Android app. They allow a phishing attack transmitted by messages sent through the application.

It is by clicking on an attachment received in a message that the victim delivers their data to hackers. The oldest devices are targeted, since the vulnerabilities concern phones running Android 9 or an earlier version, according to research by Census, a company specializing in computer security, relayed by Phonandroid.

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