WhatsApp is one of the most used platforms in the world for communicating, both with family and friends and with businesses and businesses. The application is used by more than 2 billion people around the world, and therefore, Fraud attempts and malicious attacks abound on the platform.
Although WhatsApp offers several ways to protect us from security and privacy threats, there are still different types of scams, such as Whatsapping, among others. Many of these scams aim to deceive victims into falling for them. Therefore, the company wants to help prevent this with a new protection measure.
Did they send you a message with a link? WhatsApp will help verify that it is secure
Unfortunately, although WhatsApp and our phones directly have different tools and functions to protect us against malware and other types of malicious attacks, it often happens people are victims of deception. There are many types of WhatsApp scams, including the most common: those in which criminals pose as victims’ loved ones or banks and government agencies.
After deceiving the victim, criminals can steal your WhatsApp account and steal your identitythen attack his contacts. This is why it is so important to doubt the files and links we receive, both from strangers and acquaintances. It’s just a matter of remaining alert to any suspicion.
WhatsApp wants to make our lives a little easier in this sense. The messaging platform is preparing a new tool that allows Easily verify the real source of a link before clicking on it and going to the web page. The idea is simple: if someone sent us a link, we can verify that its source is safe and avoid opening malicious links that could infect our device.
Image: WABetaInfo.
The new feature was discovered by WaBetaInfo in version 2.23.16.6 of the WhatsApp for Android beta, and now we can see how it works. Once the user receives a message with a link, it is possible to perform a quick and more intuitive search for information about the destination of that link. In order to obtain this information, WhatsApp warns that the message containing the link will be sent to Google.
This promises to be a very useful tool in the cases we receive messages with links that have been forwarded multiple timeswhich may pose a risk to the security of our devices. Before falling into a possible trap, WhatsApp wants us to be able to quickly and conveniently check if what they have sent us is safe. It will be up to us, as users, to adopt this practice, by reviewing links, to remain protected.
This feature will be available to all users of the platform in a future WhatsApp update.
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Via Android Police
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