This tactic relies on a simple weak point: trust. The malicious file is sent by someone you know, using their stolen account.

Meta’s latest WhatsApp feature has landed in a classic catch-22 situation. The company wants to enhance user privacy on the ...

WhatsApp’s username feature has run into trouble in India, where officials are concerned about impersonation fraud and fake accounts.

Meta's own Adversarial Threat report in March found that online scam syndicates targeted users in India more frequently than ...

Once WhatsApp's username feature is launched, you'll be able to protect the privacy of your phone number for new contacts.

Technology from American companies is being used to power a revolution in the scam industry, playing a key role in the industrialization and globalization of fraud in ways that have not been clear ...

You can reserve your username by heading to Settings > Account > Username in the latest version of WhatsApp on Android, or by ...

WhatsApp usernames are coming later this year, but reservations are open now, and with three billion users on the platform, the good names are going fast.