WhatsApp rolls out new feature that flags potential scam messages
WhatsApp has begun rolling out a new optional "Scam Alert" feature, which uses a local machine learning model to warn users when scammers are targeting them. [.
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WhatsApp Introduces On-Device Scam Alert to Detect Fraud Messages
WhatsApp has initiated a limited beta rollout of a feature called Scam Alert, which utilises an on-device machine learning model to identify potentially scam...
WhatsApp Unveils New Scam Alert Feature
Signal has also made a security announcement: an automatic key verification feature to complement its safety number system. The post WhatsApp Unveils New Sca...
SAP Commerce Cloud Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code
SAP has released patches to address a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Commerce Cloud (Data Hub Adapter) that could result in arbitrary code executio...
SAP Patches Critical Code Injection, Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
SAP released 28 new and two updated security notes, including four notes dealing with critical-severity bugs. The post SAP Patches Critical Code Injection, M...
New WordPress Pre-Auth XSS Could Lead to PHP Code Execution - Patch ASAP
WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the content management s...
AI Deepfakes Used to Impersonate OnlyFans Creators in New Scam
Scammers use AI deepfakes to impersonate OnlyFans creators, trick fans into sending money, then disappear after payment. Criminals are building fake identiti...
Top product launches at Black Hat USA 2026
Black Hat USA 2026 is underway in Las Vegas, and vendors are using the moment to unveil what they hope will define the next year of defense. Here are the ann...
OpenAI: Cambodian scam centers used ChatGPT to lure Indian nationals, conduct investment fraud
A tip from WhatsApp led OpenAI to ban multiple accounts associated with investment scams and human trafficking operations based in Cambodian scam centers.
WhatsApp Scam Hijacks Accounts via Linked Devices Feature
WhatsApp scam abused the Linked devices feature to hijack accounts without stealing any passwords
OpenAI reveals how criminals used ChatGPT to run scams
OpenAI banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in Cambodia’s Preah Sihanouk province, a region reports have linked to online ...
Astaroth Banking Trojan Adds WhatsApp Web Spambot to Spread Malware Across Brazil
Astaroth operators have expanded their Brazilian banking malware operations by weaponizing a new WhatsApp Web spambot module that turns infected hosts into a...
WhatsApp brings end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls to the web
WhatsApp has launched support for voice and video calls on the web, allowing users to make and receive calls directly from their browser without installing t...
Adobe Acrobat extension vulnerability allowed WhatsApp data theft
The HermeticReader vulnerability (CVE-2026-48294) exploited a flaw in the Adobe Acrobat extension, allowing any malicious website to inject commands into the...
Flaw in Adobe Extension With 300M Installs Enabled WhatsApp Data Theft
An attacker only needed to convince the targeted user to visit a malicious website to exfiltrate WhatsApp messages and contacts. The post Flaw in Adobe Exten...
WhatsApp Discovers NSO Group-Linked Spearphishing Attempts
Meta’s WhatsApp demands contempt ruling after users report NSO Group-linked phishing
What we learned about TEE security from auditing WhatsApp's Private Inference
WhatsApp’s new “Private Inference” feature represents one of the most ambitious attempts to combine end-to-end encryption with AI-powered capabilities, such ...
Sharing is scaring: The WhatsApp scam you didn’t see coming
How a fast-growing scam is tricking WhatsApp users into revealing their most sensitive financial and other data
STIXy Situations: ECSaping your threat data
Structured threat data is commonly formatted using STIX. To help get this data into Elasticsearch, we’re releasing a Python script that converts STIX to an E...