{"id":981903,"date":"2025-12-24T08:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981903"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:19:12","slug":"whatsapp-users-alert-govt-agency-warns-of-ghostpairing-attack-all-you-need-to-know-about-new-cyberattack-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/24\/whatsapp-users-alert-govt-agency-warns-of-ghostpairing-attack-all-you-need-to-know-about-new-cyberattack-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp users alert! Govt agency warns of GhostPairing attack: All you need to know about new cyberattack threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a new WhatsApp-related threat in town that endangers the ownership of people\u2019s WhatsApp accounts. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a high-priority advisory regarding a dangerous new cyberattack method known as GhostPairing. As deadly as the name sounds, this cyberattack technique allows threat actors to gain total, persistent control over a victim\u2019s WhatsApp account, without needing traditional hacking methods like SIM swapping or cracking passwords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a new WhatsApp-related threat in town that endangers the ownership of people\u2019s WhatsApp accounts. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a high-priority advisory regarding a dangerous new cyberattack method known as GhostPairing. As deadly as the name sounds, this cyberattack technique allows threat actors to gain total, persistent control over a victim\u2019s WhatsApp account, without needing traditional hacking methods like SIM swapping or cracking passwords.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981903","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=981903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}