Do You Suddenly Need To Stop Using WhatsApp After New Attacks? – Forbes

Is WhatsApp safe to use? dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images New attacks on WhatsApp have suddenly accused Meta’s mega-messenger of harvesting user data to drive ad revenue. WhatsApp categorically denies these new allegations, although it didn’t help that a message of its own was seen to suggest the same. Forbes NSA Warns Microsoft Users—Change Your Account Settings Now By Zak Doffman The new attacks come from two high-profile sources. Few commentators have higher profiles than Elon Musk, especially when it plays out on X, a platform he owns. “WhatsApp knows enough about what you’re texting to know what ads to show you,” Musk claimed on the Joe Rogan Experience. “That’s a massive security vulnerability.” These co-called “hooks for advertising” are generally assumed to rely on metadata: who messages who, when and how often, plus other data included within a user’s profile from other sources. That’s different to message content itself, which is protected by the end-to-end encryption that’s the default for all WhatsApp’s 3 billion users. But Musk went further, suggesting somebody could use “that same hook to get in there and look at your messages.” The world’s richest person has an agenda with this latest attack on the world’s
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