Discover how to impersonate your identity on WhatsApp
It seemed that this kind of inconvenience had ended for WhatsApp , but we were wrong. According to the website Security by Default, which has already been in charge of finding and reporting other security flaws , the best-known instant messaging application continues to have deficiencies when it comes to defense of our privacy. And it is that a method has been discovered to impersonate the identity of users, intercept their communicationsor send spam messages with or any content.
Apparently, the communication system between the users and the servers of WhatsApp is still not entirely secure. This is due to certain computer tools that make it possible to intercept said communication in the middle of the process. In a simpler way:
A user writes a message and sends it.
This goes directly to the servers of WhatsApp, who process the order and forward it to the desired contact. (First tick green on the transmitter)
The receiving user receives notification of a new message and automatically sends a signal to the server as having received it.
Finally, the receiving user opens WhatsApp, downloads the sender's message and sends a new signal to the server to delete it.
The question is in different tools created to break this chain in the third and fourth points In this way we could intercept messages and their content, reaching download shared photos and videos However, things are not there. And it is that, with sufficient computer knowledge, a door remains open to engage in conversation with one of the contacts and make the comments identity theft antics The editor of Security by Default shows it in several videos.
The most striking is that of Identity theft In it we can see how a third party , the spy, intercepts a communication between a supposed couple The key lies in the fact that the spy becomes one of the users, breaking the couple without the other knowing anything.When the spy leaves the conversation, communication between the real users is restored as if nothing had happened, at least for one of the two.
Another much more feasible example for the world of spam and spam is presented in another of the videos. In this case, a user of WhatsApp is intercepted and is repeatedly sent spam messages .
However, what is most worrying is the possibility of interceptingrecepting the information from the messages themselves Something that completely violates the privacy of users, being able to download the photographs or videos that are sent through WhatsApp All this without knowing anything.
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According to reports, the Security by Default administrators have already reported these issues to WhatsApp. Although they comment that it is really difficult to get in touch with the responsible for this social messaging network Still, this espionage system does not is completely reliable due to the constant security measures of WhatsApp, so it should not be a common problem since, on the other hand, it is necessary to have the necessary tools and knowledge.
