… On Monday, the Meta-owned chat app announced that it “caught and disrupted spear phishing attempts linked to NSO” after an investigation prompted by user reports. “They tried to trick people into clicking on malicious links to drive them to external websites outside of WhatsApp,” the company wrote.… …
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… We think it’s really important to give people the ability to ask these questions as privately as possible,” Alice Newton-Rex, VP of Product at WhatsApp, told TechCrunch over a call. The company has been laying down the groundwork for secure AI chats on WhatsApp for a while now. …
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