{"id":140077,"date":"2022-06-02T01:02:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T06:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hackers-steal-whatsapp-accounts-using-call-forwarding-trick"},"modified":"2022-06-02T01:02:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T06:02:44","slug":"hackers-steal-whatsapp-accounts-using-call-forwarding-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hackers-steal-whatsapp-accounts-using-call-forwarding-trick","title":{"rendered":"Hackers steal WhatsApp accounts using call forwarding trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-steal-whatsapp-accounts-using-call-forwarding-trick2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a trick that allows attackers to hijack a victim\u2019s WhatsApp account and gain access to personal messages and contact list.<\/p>\n<p>The method relies on the mobile carriers\u2019 automated service to forward calls to a different phone number, and WhatsApp\u2019s option to send a one-time password (OTP) verification code via voice call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a trick that allows attackers to hijack a victim\u2019s WhatsApp account and gain access to personal messages and contact list. The method relies on the mobile carriers\u2019 automated service to forward calls to a different phone number, and WhatsApp\u2019s option to send a one-time password (OTP) verification code via voice call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}