WhatsApp reveals six previously undisclosed vulnerabilities

WhatsApp security flaws: Facebook’s instant messaging platform WhatsApp recently revealed six vulnerabilities that it had previously kept undisclosed. These vulnerabilities have now been fixed. The messaging platform said that out of the six vulnerabilities, five were fixed in the same day, while the last one was fixed in a few days. The company added that while some bugs could have been triggered remotely, WhatsApp claimed it had not found any evidence of active exploitation of these vulnerabilities by the hackers.

While a third of the new vulnerabilities in WhatsApp came to the company’s notice via its Bug Bounty Program, routine code reviews and automated systems helped in identifying the other bugs.