Targeted by an elaborate scam, WhatsApp messaging has distributed several updates in the past few hours, bringing with it new stickers, the return of some functions, and some improvements already introduced after a short test period.
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The famous WhatsApp instant messaging. in the past few hours, it has released a lot of new features, including a new sticker pack, detailed info on Reactions to automatically generated albums, and revived some improvements mysteriously removed in recent days.
With the beta release 2.22.10.6 of WhatsApp for Android, the platform had distributed some interesting news, such as a different display of captions when sending a medium to chats and groups, which also allowed you to add other recipients. With that update, a section was also included that allowed you to vary the audience for the current status update (to change the target of all future updates, it is better to go one-off from the privacy settings).
These news in recent weeks had been mysteriously deactivated and, now, in the past few hours, they have returned to reappear, to some beta testers in possession of the 2.22.12.11 and 2.22.12.8 releases, with other activations that will follow in the coming weeks.
A few days after the discovery of the related function that would have brought more detailed info on the reactions granted to the media contained in the automatically generated albums, this feature has just been brought to iOS, through the beta 22.12.0.70 (made available through the TestFlight program ), and on Android, using the beta 2.22.12.14. Specifically, while before it was necessary to open the album to see which medium the user had received a Reaction to, now it is enough to go to the more detailed information on the Reaction for a thumbnail to understand which medium has been answered with an emoji. of reaction. Both in the case of iOS and Android, it is an activation granted to some users, with the next few weeks that will see further activations in this regard.
After the release of the Encanto sticker pack (Disney movie), WhatsApp has just started the distribution of a new sticker pack, through its official ad hoc store in the Android, iOS and Desktop versions of messaging: specifically, it is of a package that celebrates the arrival of the 4th season (volume 1) of the Netflix TV series “Stranger Things“. Those who do not want to wait for the aforementioned package to be made available via the official sticker store, can obtain it through the deep link (api.whatsapp.com/stickerpack/StrangerThings/?app_absent=0) made available by Menlo Park.
As the world’s most popular messaging app, in addition to honors, WhatsApp also comes with its own burdens. One of these is being often used to conduct scams against those who use it on a daily basis. A threat, in this sense, has just been reported by the founder and CEO of the CloudSEk security house, Rahul Sasi, according to which in this period hackers would tend to call WhatsApp users to induce them to access particular services, by typing the strings * * 67 * or * 405 * followed by a 10-digit number in order to activate call forwarding, in the event of a number busy in a phone call (in this case, with the criminal on the phone), to the hacker’s number who, in this way, having received the OTP code required by a new registration process of the victim’s WhatsApp account, disconnects the WhatsApp account from the relative number, to associate it with his own so that, having taken control of the WhatsApp account carefully , can use it to ask for money from friends, colleagues, and relatives of the victim, without the victim noticing. To remedy and take precautions, in addition to reporting the matter to the postal police, it is advisable to activate the protection of two-factor authentication on your account.