You can find the version number of the app installed on your Android phone by long-pressing on the WhatsApp icon and selecting App info, or finding the list of apps in your phone’s settings. WhatsApp lists the most-up to-date version of its Android app on its site. WhatsApp Android app version information. How do I tell if I’m using the latest version? Users are strongly advised to check for updates manually through the Apple App Store on an iPhone, Google Play or similar on an Android device, the Microsoft Store on Windows Phones and the Galaxy app store on Tizen devices.įailing that, uninstalling WhatsApp from your phone will protect you from the attack. What do I need to do to protect myself?įacebook implemented a server-side change to help protect users and pushed out updates for the various smartphone WhatsApp versions on Monday. But if you happen to be a lawyer or work in sensitive industries and use WhatsApp, even for personal correspondence, you should be especially vigilant. If you haven’t received any WhatsApp voice calls or dropped calls from unknown parties then you have probably not been targeted. A few targets, including a UK-based human rights lawyer and an Amnesty International researcher, have been identified. The number of people spied on is not yet known. Users did not even have to accept the call, and it was often hidden from logs, the paper said. Who is behind the attack?Īccording to the Financial Times, Israeli cyber intelligence company NSO Group developed the spyware. WhatsApp is used by 1.5 billion people globally. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The GuardianĪll brands of phones with WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business installed are affected, including Apple’s iPhone (iOS), Android phones, Windows Phones and Tizen devices, according to Facebook. *I am an AT&T employee, and the postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent AT&T's position, strategies or opinions.Any phone running either WhatsApp or the WhatsApp Business app can be affected. As employees we are not rewarded nor compensated to participate in these forums This forum is comprised of regular customers to communicate with other customers to offer advice and share experiences same as any other user Although there is a small team of customer care specialists that monitor the forums the sheer volume of posts are simply too many posts for these agents to respond to each one of them. While AT&T employees do look at forum posts from time to time, we are here to represent the forum with our experiences as customers and do not represent AT&T in any official capacity with our responses and do so on our own time unpaid and off the clock. INCLUDED IN EACH POST FOR CLARIFICATION_ Also, you have received multiple notifications advising you of the valid international charges that yo are incurring. AT&T never said they would give free calls through WhatsApp. I see that many other uses have had a similar issue:ĪT&T can you sort this out and stop ripping me WhatsApp is the one advertising that you can make free international calls with it. Voice calling uses your phone’s Internet connection rather than your cellular plan’s voice minutes. "Voice Calling lets you call your contacts using WhatsApp for free, even if they’re in another country. EVEN THOUGH they USE data and not AT&T cell towers. for some reason, AT&T is registering these calls as international calls. I have international calls barring on in case AT&T ever thought I was trying to make an international call.Īnnoyingly I suspect it is due to Whatsapp calling. This is the fourth time that I have received a notification that my AT&T account is being billed over 100 dollars for making international calls.
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