Stealing your WhatsApp account will be much more difficult: the new tricks you should know

WhatsApp has announced the arrival of a new package of features designed, specifically, to prevent user accounts from being stolen by cybercriminals. And it is that the messaging platform, which has more than 2,000 million users worldwide, has been the target of cyberattacks for some time. If the correct steps are not followed, and access to an account is lost, recovering it can become especially difficult. Specifically, the application owned by Meta has announced three new features: ‘account protection’, ‘device verification’ and ‘automatic security codes’. Thanks to ‘account protection’, the application will begin to make sure that, indeed, the user wants to open his account on a different mobile. “From now on, we may ask you to confirm that you want to perform this action on your old device as an additional security check. This function can notify you of an unauthorized attempt to transfer your account to another device, ”explains WhatsApp in a post on its official blog. Related News standard No What does the number 7642 mean in WhatsApp? The code used by young people M. O standard No Mobile scam alert: if you receive this SMS from your ‘son’, do not click ABC It should be remembered that, normally, when a criminal tries to steal a WhatsApp account, he tries to convince the user so that, without you noticing, it shares the verification code that the ‘app’ sends via SMS when you try to open an account on a new device. Now, the ‘app’ incorporates a new security mechanism, since the user himself will have to previously accept the login on that terminal. Meanwhile, the ‘device verification’ feature seeks to prevent a malicious third party from taking full control of the user’s WhatsApp account in case their device is ‘hacked’ with malicious code. “In this way, you can continue using WhatsApp without interruptions,” they point out from the application. WhatsApp has also announced the arrival of ‘automatic security codes’. The application has already allowed for a long time the verification of the end-to-end encryption in each of the conversations it has, and that indicates that the communications are not from outsiders. To do this, a QR code must be scanned, which can often be a nuisance. To make the process easier, and more accessible, WhatsApp has implemented a security feature that allows you to automatically verify that you have a secure connection. This means that when you click on the encryption tab, you can immediately verify that your personal conversation is secure.