Do You Suddenly Need To Stop Using WhatsApp On Your Phone? – Forbes

WhatsApp under fire. Corbis via Getty Images WhatsApp is under fire. A new lawsuit claims the messenger’s encryption claims are misleading and that Meta can read user messages after all. Meanwhile, Google warns there’s a serious new attack threat from photos sent by WhatsApp. So, do you suddenly need to stop using WhatsApp on your phone? Forbes Google Changes Gmail After 20 Years—Do Not Lose Your Account Now By Zak Doffman Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was first to strike at WhatsApp this week, following reports into a new lawsuit that Meta has dismissed as frivolous. “You’d have to be braindead to believe WhatsApp is secure in 2026,” he posted on X. “When we analyzed how WhatsApp implemented its ‘encryption,’ we found multiple attack vectors.” Then unsurprisingly Elon Musk — plugging his own X Chat — went next: “WhatsApp is not secure. Even Signal is questionable. Use 𝕏 Chat.” Ironically, neither Telegram nor 𝕏 Chat is fully encrypted in the same way as WhatsApp, which has integrated Signal’s market-leading protocol to secure user content. “This is totally false,” WhatsApp boss Will Cathcart replied to Musk. “WhatsApp can’t read messages because the encryption keys are stored on your phone and we don’t
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