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Written by  C harles Xavier Telegram and WhatsApp are both known for their security and end-to-end encryption and latest forward way secrecy techniques which secure end user data in a good manner. All these security features still doesn’t stop hackers from Hacking into WhatsApp or Telegram using a very known and old exploit of Signaling System 7 (SS7) . SS7 Exploitation has been discussed many time in the  Forum  , In this post I will just show you the Live Hack Demo and how accounts are taken over. Check out the Video Demo of WhatsApp hacking  (Telegram Technique is also SAME ) How the Hack is executed ? Above demonstrated hack  DOES NOT  break WhatsApp and Telegram Encryption rather it exploits the weakness of SS7. This is done by tricking the cellular network into believing that the Attacker’s phone has the same number as the target’s. From there, the attacker would create a new WhatsApp or Telegram account and receive the secret code that...

Hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress 31c3 is under way in Hamburg, Germany right now where a cluster of SS7 talks have revealed the ease of invasive cell phone surveillance. Three groundbreaking research presentations and live demonstrations on SS7 have shown that the NSA -- or any government's ability or access -- isn't needed to track you completely (and terrifyingly) with your cell phone. CCC is livestreaming all 31c3 talks and archiving them immediately, and you can see more of the conference's great presentations. Slide from SS7 Locate Track Manipulate (Tobias Engel)  Tobias Engel/CCC The world's oldest -- and Europe's largest -- hacker organization The Chaos Computer Club is proving its mettle with the talks at this year's 31c3: A New Dawn. But in three of the conference's earliest presentations, onstage only a day ago, researchers show what's commercially available in the realm of phone spying, and it may scare you more ...