WhatsApp Malware: How To Secure Devices in the Age of Enterprise Consumerization

Posted By Harsha Nagaraju on May 28, 2019

Earlier this month, it was discovered that a vulnerability in Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging app could be exploited to inject commercial spyware onto Android and iOS phones by simply calling the target. Once infected, the phones’ camera and mic, emails, messages as well as the user’s location data could all be exposed. WhatsApp, which is Facebook’s flagship messaging platform, is adopted by about 1.5 billion users worldwide. WhatsApp...