{"id":921417,"date":"2025-04-11T11:19:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T05:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=921417"},"modified":"2025-04-11T11:19:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T05:49:30","slug":"beware-whatsapp-users-cert-in-flags-high-severity-vulnerability-in-windows-desktop-app-heres-how-to-stay-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/11\/beware-whatsapp-users-cert-in-flags-high-severity-vulnerability-in-windows-desktop-app-heres-how-to-stay-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware WhatsApp users: CERT-In flags high-severity vulnerability in Windows Desktop app | Here\u2019s how to stay safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), which comes under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, has issued a high-severity alert concerning a newly discovered spoofing vulnerability in WhatsApp Desktop for Windows. Identified as CIVN-2025-0075, the flaw affects application versions earlier than 2.2450.6.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the vulnerability poses a serious risk to users of the popular messaging platform\u2019s desktop version, potentially exposing systems to unauthorised access, data theft, and malicious code execution, as per the government advisory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), which comes under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, has issued a high-severity alert concerning a newly discovered spoofing vulnerability in WhatsApp Desktop for Windows. Identified as CIVN-2025-0075, the flaw affects application versions earlier than 2.2450.6. Notably, the vulnerability poses a serious risk to users of the popular messaging platform\u2019s desktop version, potentially exposing systems to unauthorised access, data theft, and malicious code execution, as per the government advisory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}