WhatsApp has fixed a security bug that allowed hackers to take over the messaging app with a malicious GIF. The hack could be triggered when a user opened a malicious GIF in their gallery.

Update: A WhatsApp spokesperson has since addressed the GIF vulnerability in an email to ... The danger stems from a double-free bug in WhatsApp, according to a researcher going by the nickname ...

Welcome to my nightmare: This GIF of a bug being expectorated out of a human mouth. During the World Cup match between Uruguay and France on Friday, French goalie Hugo Lloris nearly swallowed a ...

the malicious GIF triggers the bug. It then opens a remote shell in the app, making the device and its contents open to exploitation. The vulnerability, officially called CVE-2019-11932 ...

Microsoft has resolved security problems in Microsoft Teams that could have been used in an attack chain to take over user accounts -- all with the help of a .GIF file. On Monday, cybersecurity ...