{"id":981228,"date":"2025-12-22T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981228"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:03:09","slug":"what-is-ghostpairing-the-whatsapp-scam-that-hijacks-accounts-without-otps-or-sim-swaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/what-is-ghostpairing-the-whatsapp-scam-that-hijacks-accounts-without-otps-or-sim-swaps\/","title":{"rendered":"What is GhostPairing? The WhatsApp scam that hijacks accounts without OTPs or SIM swaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sophisticated new scam targeting WhatsApp users has been uncovered, exploiting the app\u2019s device-linking feature to gain full access to victims\u2019 accounts. Cybersecurity experts have warned that the campaign, called GhostPairing, allows attackers to hijack accounts without stealing passwords, SIM cards, or verification codes.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike conventional hacks, GhostPairing relies entirely on social engineering, tricking users into approving a malicious device themselves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sophisticated new scam targeting WhatsApp users has been uncovered, exploiting the app\u2019s device-linking feature to gain full access to victims\u2019 accounts. Cybersecurity experts have warned that the campaign, called GhostPairing, allows attackers to hijack accounts without stealing passwords, SIM cards, or verification codes. Unlike conventional hacks, GhostPairing relies entirely on social engineering, tricking users into approving a malicious device themselves.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981228","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=981228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}