India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears
Government of the messenger's largest market demands a pause while Meta explains how it plans to stop impersonators
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Government of the messenger's largest market demands a pause while Meta explains how it plans to stop impersonators
Direct messages sent via WhatsApp are being used to distribute malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) files that lead to the installation of legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software
India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued directions to app-based communication service providers to ensure that the platforms cannot be used without an active SIM card linked to the user's mobile number
Competition Regulator Says WhatsApp Users Could Not Opt Out of Data SharingIndia's Competition Commission has fined social media conglomerate Meta over $25 million for forcing WhatsApp users to agree to a sweeping data sharing policy with other Meta platforms. The agency ordered the company to stop using users' data for online advertising on other Meta platforms.
For three years now, more than a thousand social media accounts have been reposting the same pro-India, anti-Pakistan content on Facebook and X.
Hackers Use Messaging Apps WhatsApp, Telegram to Bait VictimsMobile banking Trojans spread through deceptive social media messages remain a problem for Indian smartphone users, warns Microsoft. India accounts for 4 in 10 global transactions made with digital payments, according to the National Payments Corporation of India.
Android smartphone users in India are the target of a new malware campaign that employs social engineering lures to install fraudulent apps that are capable of harvesting sensitive data
The Vietnamese threat actors behind the Ducktail stealer malware have been linked to a new campaign that ran between March and early October 2023, targeting marketing professionals in India with an aim to hijack Facebook business accounts
In a weird way, we can blame this on AI being a better bet than blockchain India's IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar will ask WhatsApp to explain what's up, after the Meta-owned messaging service experienced a dramatic increase in spam calls.…
Meta Platforms disclosed that it took down no less than 200 covert influence operations since 2017 spanning roughly 70 countries across 42 languages