{"id":227348,"date":"2025-12-18T01:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/whatsapp-device-linking-abused-in-account-hijacking-attacks"},"modified":"2025-12-18T01:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:15:45","slug":"whatsapp-device-linking-abused-in-account-hijacking-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/whatsapp-device-linking-abused-in-account-hijacking-attacks","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp device linking abused in account hijacking attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whatsapp-device-linking-abused-in-account-hijacking-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Threat actors are abusing the legitimate device-linking feature to hijack WhatsApp accounts via pairing codes in a campaign dubbed GhostPairing.<\/p>\n<p>This type of attack does not require any authentication, as the victim is tricked into linking the attacker\u2019s browser to a WhatsApp device.<\/p>\n<p>By doing so, threat actors gain access to the full conversation history and shared media, and may leverage information to impersonate users or commit fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threat actors are abusing the legitimate device-linking feature to hijack WhatsApp accounts via pairing codes in a campaign dubbed GhostPairing. This type of attack does not require any authentication, as the victim is tricked into linking the attacker\u2019s browser to a WhatsApp device. By doing so, threat actors gain access to the full conversation history [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227348","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=227348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}