One dial is all it takes: The sneaky trick behind WhatsApp hacks

A woman was going about her day when she noticed suddenly that her WhatsApp had stopped working. She tried restarting her phone, but to no avail. Soon after, her husband started receiving calls from her contacts, asking why she was requesting money.

Confused, she checked her phone again. It wasn’t just WhatsApp – she couldn’t make or receive calls either. Worried, her husband contacted the cybercrime branch, where they discovered that her WhatsApp had been hacked through call forwarding.