{"id":981567,"date":"2025-12-22T11:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981567"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:50:26","slug":"govt-warning-on-whatsapp-ghostpairing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/govt-warning-on-whatsapp-ghostpairing\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt warning on WhatsApp \u2018GhostPairing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known as \u2018GhostPairing\u2019, the CERT-In issued an advisory, terming it a \u2018high\u2019 severity rating, which enables cybercriminals to take complete control of WhatsApp accounts without needing passwords or SIM swaps. It has been reported that malicious actors are exploiting WhatsApp\u2019s device-linking feature to hijack accounts using pairing codes without an authentication requirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known as \u2018GhostPairing\u2019, the CERT-In issued an advisory, terming it a \u2018high\u2019 severity rating, which enables cybercriminals to take complete control of WhatsApp accounts without needing passwords or SIM swaps. It has been reported that malicious actors are exploiting WhatsApp\u2019s device-linking feature to hijack accounts using pairing codes without an authentication requirement.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981567","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=981567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}