Meta, the company that owns the WhatsApp messaging application, may soon activate new technology that will identify fraudulent or dangerous messages from unknown numbers.

Scams via messaging or cell phone calls have increased in recent months. Meta’s strategy focuses on the security of its platform users, preventing their sensitive data from being compromised or stolen.

WhatsApp will send a notification to users “if it detects potential fraudulent messages with a new optional tool, which the company is currently working on.” According to the specialized portal WABetaInfo, the test is being conducted in the beta version of the Android application (v2.26.22.2).

It’s a proprietary technology tool that analyzes incoming messages from unknown contacts directly on the user’s device. If it detects what could be a scam, it “allows the user to choose what they want to do: block and report the sender or continue the conversation.”

An important detail is that, because it operates on the user’s own device, the message analysis “does not send any information to other servers, not even those of Meta – WhatsApp’s parent company –” thus ensuring privacy with end-to-end encryption.

The tool will be optional and will be disabled by default. It runs in the background, without interrupting user activity, and includes a history showing when and how the alert was triggered.

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Communication today takes place almost entirely through messaging apps. This increases the likelihood of becoming a victim of hacking, account theft, credential and asset theft, or extortion, making enhanced digital security essential.

End-to-end encryption minimizes the impact of cyberattacks that could lead to data theft. This tool can be optimized with applications that encrypt all messages and calls, blocking the excessive collection of metadata such as location and allowing users to control their data with features like self-destructing messages and two-factor authentication.

Of course, it’s vital not to share sensitive information, since, as we know, even “secure apps can be vulnerable to risks like phishing or malware.”

What else can users do? One of the expert recommendations is to look for features like disappearing messages or optional encrypted backups. Also, PIN/biometric protection is important, as is regularly updating apps to increase protection against new threats.

Likewise, it’s ideal to stay informed, read, and attend workshops or seminars on phishing, malware, online advertising, secure e-commerce, screen lock and configuration mechanisms, and other related topics.

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Google has started rolling out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in group chats, a feature that is already available to some beta testers of this app.

The company announced in November 2020 that it would incorporate this security filter in individual conversations, that is, between two users, so that only the participants could see their content. This protection is such that Google cannot even access them.

At the end of last October, 9to5Google announced that the platform was working on encrypting the group chats of its Messages application, according to a series of testimonials collected from Reddit.

In them, users admitted that their devices had set up a notification that the message sent was encrypted. Now, this same medium has pointed out that Google has begun to implement the E2EE for group chats in the latest beta version of the application.

With this, it has indicated that for this system to work, all users of that group chat must have the Rich Communication Services (RCS) functions enabled in the chat and mobile data or WiFi enabled.

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Twitter plans to introduce end-to-end encrypted direct messaging (DM) to the platform, a feature it worked on years ago and one that reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong recently warned about.

With the arrival of Elon Musk to the social network, in which he now appears as the owner, the billionaire has announced changes and proposals for this new era, such as the payment verification program, among others. Another of the alternatives proposed by the new Twitter address would be the introduction of end-to-end encrypted direct messages, a feature that the company already worked on a few years ago.

In 2018 the company called this functionality Secret Conversation and tested it for a small group of users. So, it introduced the ‘Start Secret Conversation’ button and initially only allowed text sharing.

In this way, it ruled out the sending and receiving of emojis, animated GIFs or images. Finally, unlike other brands like Meta (then Facebook), which already have this system in WhatsApp and Messenger, it chose not to introduce this alternative.

Now, Jane Manchun Wong has found indications that Twitter is developing this function in her direct messages in the platform’s line of code, which she has shared in a screenshot on her personal profile. The reverse engineering expert has indicated that she has found end-to-end message encryption in the version of Twitter for Android devices, but has not commented on the iOS or web version.

Precisely, Musk has responded to Manchun Wong’s publication and has put the smiley of a winking face, which could confirm that the social network is contemplating resuming this function. For her part, the reverse engineering expert has only commented that she is convinced that “there will be third-party security audits on the implementation of encrypted messages when it is launched.”

This would not be the only feature that the social network would resume with the arrival of Elon Musk at the company, since in early November Axios reported that Twitter planned to introduce the Vine short-form video application.

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