{"id":981292,"date":"2025-12-22T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981292"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:32:23","slug":"government-warns-whatsapp-users-about-ghostpairing-attack-what-is-it-and-how-to-stay-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/government-warns-whatsapp-users-about-ghostpairing-attack-what-is-it-and-how-to-stay-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Government warns WhatsApp users about \u2018GhostPairing\u2019 attack: What is it and how to stay safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian computer emergency response team (CERT-In) has issued an advisory for WhatsApp users warning them of a \u2018device-linking\u2019 feature that can allow attackers to take \u2018complete\u2019 control of their account. The advisory, accessed by news agency PTI says that the vulnerability called \u2018GhostPairing\u2019 put users\u2019 messages, photos, and videos on the web version at risk. \u201cIt has been reported that malicious actors are exploiting WhatsApp&#8217;s device-linking feature to hijack accounts using pairing codes without authentication requirement,\u201d the cyber agency said in the advisory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis newly identified cyber campaign called GhostPairing enable cyber criminals to take complete control of WhatsApp accounts without needing password or SIM swaps,\u201d the advisory said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian computer emergency response team (CERT-In) has issued an advisory for WhatsApp users warning them of a \u2018device-linking\u2019 feature that can allow attackers to take \u2018complete\u2019 control of their account. The advisory, accessed by news agency PTI says that the vulnerability called \u2018GhostPairing\u2019 put users\u2019 messages, photos, and videos on the web version at risk. \u201cIt has been reported that malicious actors are exploiting WhatsApp&#8217;s device-linking feature to hijack accounts using pairing codes without authentication requirement,\u201d the cyber agency said in the advisory. \u201cThis newly identified cyber campaign called GhostPairing enable cyber criminals to take complete control of WhatsApp [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981292","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=981292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}