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Recent wave of hijacked WhatsApp accounts traced back to voicemail hacking - silversurfer - 04 October 18

Quote: A wave of reports about hijacked WhatsApp accounts in Israel has forced the government's cyber-security agency to send out a nation-wide security alert on Tuesday, ZDNet has learned.

The alert
, authored by the Israel National Cyber Security Authority, warns about a relatively new method of hijacking WhatsApp accounts using mobile providers' voicemail systems.
This new hacking method was first documented last year by Ran Bar-Zik, an Israeli web developer at Oath.

Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/recent-wave-of-hijacked-whatsapp-accounts-traced-back-to-voicemail-hacking/