Cybersecurity Agency Warned WhatsApp Users To Upgrade To Avoid The Vulnerability

ERT - Cybersecurity agency has warned Watsapp users regarding a vulnerability that can collect your personal chats, photos, videos, and documents and can compromise their individual account with any permission of the actual user. Though the popular social messaging app said users have not been impacted but the CERT-In - Computer Emergency Response Team-India have put forward an advisory regarding the severity of the threat, being spread by an MP4 file, as “high.”

Watsapp has already informed the Indian Government regarding the targeted hundred Indian Watsapp users by the Israeli spyware Pegasus.

CERT - Cybersecurity agency have advised the Watsapp users to upgrade the latest version of Watsapp to avoid the vulnerability. This vulnerability is exploited by the remote attackers by sending a crafted MP4 file to the target system. The arbitrary code is executed by the attackers once the buffer overflow condition triggered.

The vulnerability does not need any permission of the user to take access over the Watsapp account. The researchers have come up with data that almost half-a-dozen of the Watsapp software have been affected by this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is referred to as a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability and this is developed by Israel-based NSO Group which targeted almost 1,400 users globally and also almost 121 users from India. The Israel-based NSO Group has developed this vulnerability in an attempt to reach mobile phones.