August 13, 2026
The new investigation team has approached the cybercrime agency for access to Mir Raza Ali's digital records and WhatsApp account details, as it works to close gaps left by the original inquiry.
October 18, 2025
NSO has, for years, been accused of facilitating human rights abuses through its flagship hacking tool, Pegasus. US judge issues permanent injunction preventing NSO group from hacking messaging platform WhatsApp. PHOTO: PIXABAY A US court has ordered Israel’s NSO Group to stop targeting Meta Platforms’ messaging service WhatsApp, a development the spyware company warned could put it out of business. In a 25-page ruling issued on Friday, US District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton issued a permanent injunction against NSO Group’s attempts to hack into WhatsApp, one of the world’s most widely used communication platforms. Hamilton also gave NSO a significant
March 21, 2025
Listen to the article WhatsApp is alleged to be close to starting a refurbished music sharing feature for the status updates, offering users an experience similar to Instagram stories when sharing songs from Spotify. According to Tech Insiders Wabetainfo and Android Police, up -to -date feature will improve the way music appears in Whatsapp, offering cover album preview, song names and artists and more visually attractive provisions for shared tracks. “The sharing of WhatsApp’s status updates will create a preview of the song of the song/album, complete with the names of the song and artists,” Android police said. “Similar to
October 7, 2024
The image shows various icons of social media apps, including WhatsApp. — Unsplash/File In an alarming development, scammers are targeting pensioners on WhatsApp in India as the deadline for government pensioners to submit their Jeevan Pramaan certificate approaches. The certificate must be submitted to the authorized pension disbursing agencies such as banks every year in November. In an attempt to con them out of money by stealing their personal details, scammers are asking pensioners to share their personal details via the popular messaging platform. After such incidents emerged, the government has warned that official updates will not be sent through
August 24, 2024
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has blocked several WhatsApp groups linked to Iranian hackers amid growing concerns about interference in the upcoming US presidential election. These groups were allegedly linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and were part of a wider effort to influence the 2024 elections. According to Meta, the hackers posed as WhatsApp tech support to target people associated with the administrations of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. The same group has previously attempted phishing attacks against people associated with Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, as well as political
Last month, the governor’s conversation with PCB COO Salman Naseer was telecast on a private TV channel Pakistan captain Babar Azam takes the field during the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 match between India and Pakistan at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on October 14, 2023. — AFP LAHORE: Pakistan captain Babar Azam has sought legal opinions over a leaked WhatsApp conversation with a senior cricket board official, sources said Geo News Wednesday. Last month, a controversy arose after an alleged “private” WhatsApp conversation between Pakistan skipper Babar Azam and a senior Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official was
PCB COO Salman Naseer (Left) and Pakistan captain Babar Azam. — X/@salnaseer/AFP/File The revelation of captain Babar Azam’s private WhatsApp chat about team affairs has irked Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chief Operating Officer (COO) Salman Naseer, senior sports journalist Sohail Imran revealed on Thursday. “PCB COO Salman Naseer is very annoyed that in the corporate culture the conversation that was shared between people should have remained between them…” he said while speaking to Geo Pakistan projection. The PCB COO, the senior journalist said, is also worried that players would be wary of discussing their issues with him in future amid
Rashid Latif, the former wicketkeeper of the Pakistan cricket team, on Saturday claimed that Zaka Ashraf, the head of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), allegedly neglected Babar Azam’s attempts to contact him through calls and text messages. However, in response to these allegations, Ashraf stated in an interview to a local news channel that the Pakistan captain had never contacted him directly. Ashraf clarified: “He [Latif] he says i’m not picking up his [Babar’s] call. He has never called me. The team captain is supposed to speak to the Director of International Cricket or the Chief Operating Officer.” Despite Ashraf’s
September 22, 2022
TEHRAN: Iran has restricted internet access after days of protests that have claimed at least 11 lives, following the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police. According to the details, three security officers were stabbed or shot dead after they had been “mobilised to deal with rioters”, in Mashhad in the northeast, Qazvin in the centre and Tabriz in the northwest. A fourth member of the security forces was killed in the southern city of Shiraz, they said, adding that a protester had also been stabbed to death in Qazvin. Iranian officials had previously confirmed
July 16, 2022
LAHORE: The alleged WhatsApp conversation of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former Federal Minister Farrukh Habib leaked with a person taken into custody by the police from PP-168 along with hundreds of identity cards ahead of the by-election in PP-168. The accused spoke to PTI leader Hafiz Farhat Abbas and sent all the ID cards pictures to Farrukh Habib last night. While a WhatsApp chat between the accused and the PTI leader Hafiz Farhat started in May and the accused allegedly bought and sent hundreds of identity cards to Hafiz Farhat. Farrukh Habib sent a WhatsApp message to accused Khalid
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