WhatsApp is a popular free platform used by billions of internet users. They install it to take advantages of a large number of its simple, useful features and exchange text messages with attached videos and audio files, using Android or iOS phone, PC or Mac computer or another smart mobile device. They can easily share a lot of information.
It is a common notion that instant messaging apps like WhatsApp must implement the strongest possible encryption to prevent user tracking and privacy invasion. That’s fine from a user’s perspective. But now, WhatsApp is prone to attack by a spyware named Pegasus.
Pegasus is the name of spyware that can be installed on devices running certain versions of iOS, Apples’s mobile Operating System. Upon clicking on a malicious link, Pegasus secretly enables a jailbreak on the device and can read text messages, track calls, collect passwords, trace the phone location, as well as gather information from apps including (but not limited to) iMessage, Gmail, Viber, Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Skype. It has been revealed that Pegasus can also target Android devices.
We can see that this situation is alarming. No one’s data is safe. All of us need to be careful with Spywares and safeguard our personal and professional data in our mobile phones.
WhatsApp Snooping and Data Privacy 