turn off auto download media folks
A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats
Submitted 2 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Are there any infos about what an attacker can do with this? The article didn’t say this. Remote Code execution? With the privileges of the app? Reading all files? Or only some? The impact information seems important here.
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org 2 months ago
If you use WhatsApp you are a moron.
deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 2 months ago
I use whatsapp for communicating with a few groups of people who are refusing to switch over. I’m not getting them to move, they’re a mix of tech illiterate, ignorant, or just unwilling. These groups have important annoucements in them, that I’m unable to receive any other way. Sometimes there’s just no way around services like these.
I do my best to protect myself (no proprietary facebook code ever runs on my main device), and keep personal information I provide to a minimum (as I don’t trust Facebook’s E2EE claims). There’s not much more I can do besides not receiving important announcements.
cheesorist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
dont explain your self to people who have no ties to others
sefra1@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Oh yes, let me cut myself completely from society and 90% of people I’ve ever met. That will tell Zuckerberg!
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org 2 months ago
Stay away from cliffs.
demonsword@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not everyone uses this shit willingly. I’m forced to because of my job, for instance.
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org 2 months ago
Hopefully it’s on a work device.
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I say this to myself every time that I open Whatsapp to check my family chats
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org 2 months ago
Just switch! Or run your own chat!