However, if a GIF is sent directly through WhatsApp's Gallery Picker, the attack will fail. Once a user opens ... Guide where he covers everything from data breaches and ransomware gangs to ...

The app then generates a malicious GIF file used to steal files from WhatsApp through the collection of library data. The second ... the attack will fail.) Once the Gallery View is opened in ...

All a user had to do was view the Gif to allow an attacker to scrape data from their account ... when applications fail to do the necessary checks while bringing in content from servers - in ...