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Published: Thursday, 31 December 2020 08:34
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Written by Drafting
Cybercriminals are busy stealing WhatsApp accounts in the last weeks of 2020. Thousands of users around the world have been affected by a hole in the application’s authentication system with which the account is hijacked and a chain message is spread among all contacts.
The way to attack the WhatsApp account is simple, taking advantage of the possibility of transferring a phone number between accounts.
WhasApp sends an SMS with an authentication code and thus ensures that the change of phone number corresponds to the person who requested it.
Cybercriminals appeal to the trust of known persons and thus carry out the theft of the account.
The victim receives a message on WhatsApp from a known person in which it is said that this authentication code has been sent to him and if they can please send it to him.
If you send the code, you are lost, since your account will have been transferred to the attacker and will send the same message to all the contacts, trying to get someone to fall for it.
How to avoid it?
1st. Never send the WhatsApp code, not even the person you trust.
2nd. Activate double verification (Settings / Account)
3rd. Check from time to time the devices where the WhatsApp web session is started and close it if you don’t use it.
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