WhatsApp appears to be a bug that makes it possible to check the status of another user to change, not to have dissolved. A hacker has a Windows tool released that allows the status of each user can be customized.
Friday wrote Tweakers.net a vulnerability in the WhatsApp-protocol that made it possible to any other user of the WhatsApp-status-adjust. A hacker demonstrated the vulnerability on a website, WhatsAppStatus.net, which a visitor is only someone’s telephone number had to be entered in order to change the status. It came to the status that is displayed in the contact list.
WhatsApp promised the vulnerability to close and prevented the users from the exploit of WhatsAppStatus.net still could use. Last Monday, exorcized a spokesman of the chat that the problem was permanently solved. Nothing is less true; the vulnerability is still present, and the hacker has a new tool released that proves.
“They have only our website-ip blocked”, as it is to read on the site. That is why the hackers a tool for Windows released that are exactly the same. The application does indeed appear to work; the WhatsApp status of others is to be modified, although a user WhatsApp need to exit and re-start to the new update.
The program is at your own responsibility, warns the hacker, but he promises that he has no data to save, and that there is no spyware in the executable. The application contains, according to the 43 anti-virus scanners indeed no malware.
However, other security researchers have exactly the same problem in september, with WhatsApp reported. Previously discovered a reader of Tweakers.net that WhatsApp messages are unencrypted save. Shortly before, made an error in sms verification from WhatsApp it is possible to send messages for others to read.
