Vulnerability That Allowed Hackers to Take Over WhatsApp and Telegram Accounts

Re:Vulnerability That Allowed Hackers to Take Over WhatsApp ... by apeace on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:11PM (#13877114)

Interesting that this post references the CIA Wikileaks publication, but does not explicitly say that the exploit was found via those leaks.

It would be very big news if that were the case. Major news outlets such as the New York Times[0] have slammed Wikileaks for using "misleading" language to describe the leaks, specifically in reference to WhatsApp.

I hope the author will clarify how they came across this exploit.

From the NYT article:

> In their haste to post articles about the release, almost all the leading news organizations took the WikiLeaks tweets at face value. Their initial accounts mentioned Signal, WhatsApp and other encrypted apps by name, and described them as “bypassed” or otherwise compromised by the C.I.A.’s cyberspying tools.

> Yet on closer inspection, this turned out to be misleading. Neither Signal nor WhatsApp, for example, appears by name in any of the alleged C.I.A. files in the cache.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/opinion/the-truth-about-t...

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Re:Vulnerability That Allowed Hackers to Take Over WhatsApp ... by ryanlol on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @01:19PM (#13877856)

>I hope the author will clarify how they came across this exploit.

These bugs didn't come from wikileaks.

>Major news outlets such as the New York Times[0] have slammed Wikileaks for using "misleading" language to describe the leaks, specifically in reference to WhatsApp.

Still wouldn't explain their claims about Signal.

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