Israeli Firm Claims It Can Break WhatsApp’s Encryption from Backpack
An Israeli surveillance firm claims it can break the encryption behind the popular messaging app WhatsApp. Wintego claims it can compromise the data transmitted in encrypted conversations contained in WhatsApp through a program called CatchApp. According to brochures handed out at a recent policing event, CatchApp uses a man-in-the-middle attack to intercept traffic in between the sender and the recipient. This capability to compromise WhatsApp’s encryption is supposedly contained in WINT, a hacking device small enough to be stored inside a backpack. WINT is touted as being able to....
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