A historic change in WhatsApp This is the new function that will prevent you from falling victim to malware and fraud

A historic change in WhatsApp This is the new function that will prevent you from falling victim to malware and fraud

WhatsApp is one of the most widely used platforms in the world for communicating, whether with family and friends or with businesses. The app is used by more than 2 billion people around the world, so fraud attempts and malicious attacks on the platform are frequent.

Although WhatsApp offers several ways to protect us from security and privacy threats, there are still different types of scams, such as Whatsapping and others. Many of these scams rely on tricking victims into falling for them. Therefore, the company wants to help prevent this with a new security measure.

Unfortunately, even though WhatsApp and our phones have various tools and functions directly in place to protect us from malware and other types of malicious attacks, people still fall victim to scams. There are many types of WhatsApp scams, including the most common: those in which criminals pretend to be the victims’ loved ones or banks and government agencies.

After tricking the victim, criminals can hijack their WhatsApp account, impersonate them, and then attack their contacts. That’s why it’s so important to be skeptical of the files and links we receive, whether from strangers or acquaintances. It’s simply about staying alert to any suspicion.

WhatsApp wants to make our lives a little easier in this sense. The messaging platform is preparing a new tool that will allow you to easily check the real source of a link before clicking on it and reaching a web page. The idea is simple: if someone sends us a link, we can check that it comes from a safe source and avoid opening malicious links that could infect our devices.

The new feature was discovered by WaBetaInfo in version 2.23.16.6 of the WhatsApp beta for Android, and we can now take a look at how it works. Once a user receives a message containing a link, it is possible to perform a quick and easier search to obtain information about the destination of this link. In order to obtain this information, WhatsApp alerts that the message containing the link will be sent to Google.

This promises to be a very useful tool in those cases where we receive messages containing links that have been forwarded multiple times, which could pose a risk to the security of our devices. Before falling into a potential trap, WhatsApp wants us to be able to quickly and practically check whether what they have sent us is safe. It will be up to us as users to adopt this practice, and review the links, to keep ourselves protected.

This feature will be available to all users of the platform in a future WhatsApp update.