19/02/2021
Cybercriminals can use different techniques to steal access to your WhatsApp account. And once they do, in addition to being unable to use your profile, the information you have stored on that platform, such as your conversations, could fall into other hands.
One of the ways that this can happen is that a cybercriminal, who knows your WhatsApp number, seeks to verify that account on another device. Of course, if you do, that account will no longer be available on your cell phone.
But for this to happen, the system asks for a verification code that arrives by SMS or voice call. And if you received a message like that, you would realize that there is something strange but it could happen that the user who seeks to hack your account, when requesting to log in to your WhatsApp on his cell phone, asks to receive the code by voice and if you do not answer that call with the code, it will be recorded in the answering machine.
“If it is requested that the message arrives by voice message and the user (the true owner of the account) does not answer because he is at the cinema or sleeping, for example, the code will be saved in the answering machine of his mobile. And in many cases, the password to access the voice answering machine that is by default is very easy to deduce. So if the user did not modify this password, the attacker could easily access the verification code in order to log into WhatsApp from his smartphone, "explained Luis Lubeck, Eset's security analyst, in dialogue with Infobae.
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