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.

The issue would impact their own device." However, Awakened has disputed the idea that the bug can only be triggered by a victim sending the GIF, saying, "the claim is not correct ...

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 ...

This kind of bug could lead to memory leaking or becoming ... by the handle “Awakened” who created and used a malicious GIF file to trigger the vulnerability to perform a Remote Code Execution ...

whatsapp" height="300" width="400" msid="71424022" hostid="281" align="left" > A security bug has been found in Facebook-owned instant messenger WhatsApp that could ...