{"id":981546,"date":"2025-12-22T11:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981546"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:42:28","slug":"ghostpairing-attack-enables-complete-whatsapp-account-control-indian-cyber-agency-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/ghostpairing-attack-enables-complete-whatsapp-account-control-indian-cyber-agency-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018GhostPairing\u2019 attack enables complete WhatsApp account control, Indian cyber agency warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian cyber security agency CERT-In has flagged a vulnerability in WhatsApp\u2019s device-linking feature that allows attackers to gain \u201ccomplete\u201d control of user accounts, including access to real-time messages, photos and videos on the web version. <\/p>\n<p>In an advisory issued on Friday and accessed by PTI, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team named the issue \u201cGhostPairing\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian cyber security agency CERT-In has flagged a vulnerability in WhatsApp\u2019s device-linking feature that allows attackers to gain \u201ccomplete\u201d control of user accounts, including access to real-time messages, photos and videos on the web version. In an advisory issued on Friday and accessed by PTI, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team named the issue \u201cGhostPairing\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981546","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}