The biggest WhatsApp bug ever found and revealed
Hello, dear readers. Today I'm here to reveal the biggest bug ever found in WhatsApp: a really dangerous bug for everyone, which could get a lot of people into trouble or help many fraudsters get away with it. Some people reveal the same old flaws over and over and even go on TV to talk nonsense; others help you learn things nobody would ever tell you.
HERE WE GO
Let's start from the fact that to use WhatsApp we need a phone and a SIM card with a phone number.
When you install the app, the first thing it asks for is your phone number, because WhatsApp works through it: based on your contacts list, you can reach all your friends and acquaintances with this wonderful app.
Isn't it FANTASTIC? We can even make calls, have group chats and much more, BUT there's a big "but", and to explain it I have to use an example, because it's not that easy to understand:
if you have a SIM card that you haven't topped up for a long time and you use it for WhatsApp, once the SIM card expires the app keeps working with the same number, even though it is no longer active.
OH MY GOD
do you know what that means?
Continuing the example: if I were a fraudster, I would start phishing and sending adware, malware and anything else to scam people and earn as much as possible, because I'd be using a number whose owner is unknown. And here comes the ultimate twist: our dear providers (Vodafone, TIM, 3, Wind and all the others in Italy, and as far as I know all the others worldwide) reassign that same number to other users after a (not very long) period.
GOOD GRIEF
This means a fraudster could, right now, be running many scams in the name of unsuspecting phone users who have been assigned a number that belonged to someone else before them and is now being used for, let's say, not entirely lawful purposes.
We will report this problem, which we believe may be the most serious ever found in an app, to the competent authorities and to WhatsApp's developers; starting tomorrow we will test all instant messaging apps that work on the same principle, and finally we will contact the Italian phone providers asking them to stop reassigning phone numbers that have already been used.
Please spread the word, have your friends and acquaintances read this article, and be as careful as possible, because scams are always around the corner.
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