{"id":981470,"date":"2025-12-22T10:09:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981470"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:39:04","slug":"what-is-ghostpairing-new-scam-that-can-hijack-whatsapp-account-without-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/what-is-ghostpairing-new-scam-that-can-hijack-whatsapp-account-without-password\/","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2018GhostPairing\u2019, new scam that can \u2018hijack\u2019 WhatsApp account without password?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued an advisory for Indian WhatsApp users, warning them about a new \u201cdevice-linking\u201d feature on the social media platform that could allow attackers to \u2018hijack\u2019 accounts. It said the newly identified cyber campaign is called \u2018GhostPairing\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory, which carries a \u2018high\u2019 severity rating, said the attack begins when the victim receives a message such as \u201cHi, check this photo\u201d, which can lead to the full \u2018hijacking\u2019 of the user\u2019s WhatsApp account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued an advisory for Indian WhatsApp users, warning them about a new \u201cdevice-linking\u201d feature on the social media platform that could allow attackers to \u2018hijack\u2019 accounts. It said the newly identified cyber campaign is called \u2018GhostPairing\u2019. The advisory, which carries a \u2018high\u2019 severity rating, said the attack begins when the victim receives a message such as \u201cHi, check this photo\u201d, which can lead to the full \u2018hijacking\u2019 of the user\u2019s WhatsApp account.<\/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":[15,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-telecom-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981470","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=981470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}