Criminals might use ‘GhostPairing’ to hijack your WhatsApp account – here’s how to stop them

(Image credit: Meta) A new WhatsApp scam called ‘GhostPairing’ has been discovered This tricks users into giving a criminal access to their account The attacker can then commit identity theft and scam others There’s no shortage of ways that hackers and other criminals will attempt to gain access to online accounts, but now another has just been discovered, and this specifically relates to WhatsApp. Gen Digital (via Bleeping Computer) has discovered a WhatsApp account takeover approach that it’s dubbing ‘GhostPairing’ – and when a criminal successfully carries this out, it gives them full access to your WhatsApp account, potentially without you even realizing. So it’s worth knowing what to look out for. The attempt starts by the victim being sent a message from one of their contacts, generally saying something like “Hey, I just found your photo”, followed by a link. That link will appear with a Facebook-like preview, as you can see in the image below, but the link itself won’t actually take you to Facebook. A GhostPairing WhatsApp scam message (Image credit: Gen Digital) Instead, it will take you to a page hosted by the criminals that’s designed to look like Facebook, and will ask you to log
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