WhatsApp discovered the flaw earlier this month and upgraded its infrastructure. It asked users globally to update the app. India is among its largest markets with over 300 million using the messaging app to send texts and make calls.Around 1.5-billion WhatsApp users were affected by a vulnerability that allowed attackers to inject a commercial Israeli spyware into phones. Now is a great time to update your WhatsApp software,” CitizenLab, a cyberspace unit of University of Toronto, wrote in a tweet.The social messaging app pushed out an update on Monday to all users that fixes this vulnerability. So, the care you need to take is this: update your WhatsApp app now!

Source: Economic Times May 16, 2019 03:45 UTC