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Founding Father Pavel Durov telegram have a stern warning for two billion users Whatsapp Around the world. Durov said users should avoid WhatsApp to prevent their phones from being hacked.
Durov’s warning was delivered in a blog posted on his Telegram channel. Durov cited a security issue discovered by WhatsApp last week that allowed hackers to steal a victim’s phone simply by sending a video.
“Hackers can have full access (!) To anything on WhatsApp users’ phones,” Durov wrote in a Telegram post, as quoted by The Independent, Saturday (10/8/2022).
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“All hackers have to do to control your phone is send malicious videos or start video calls with you on WhatsApp.”
Durov also told users that they have already updated the app Whatsapp on his latest version phone doesn’t mean he’s safe from hacker threats. He explained how WhatsApp had the same security problem from 2017 to 2020.
According to him this is not just a coincidence. Durov says this vulnerability is a backdoor positioned to make it easier for governments, law enforcement and hackers to bypass encryption and other security features.
This 37-year-old man also claimed that anyone could be a victim of hacking if they installed WhatsApp on their mobile. He gave the example of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos whose cell phone was hacked after receiving a WhatsApp message that turned out to contain a malicious file.
“That’s why I deleted WhatsApp from my device years ago. The installation creates a loophole to get into your phone,” he explained.
Despite urging users to avoid WhatsApp, Durov admitted that this warning was not meant to invite users to switch to WhatsApp Telegram. He said Telegram currently has 700 million active users and two million new subscribers every day, so it doesn’t need any additional promotions.
“You can use any messaging app you like, but avoid WhatsApp – it has been used as a spying tool for 13 years,” he concluded.
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