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Tracking the WhatsApp habits of 5000 random Smartphones
In the previous blog post, we have seen that this is quite simple to hack the WhatsApp online status of a contact. A simple Online or last seen yesterday at 19:00 insight can be reverse engineered to leak phone habits at a couple of seconds accuracy.
βΌοΈ There is an even more silly thing not mentioned yet: You can track any mobile phone ! So letβs play and scale to track 5000 random numbers.
Like previously, I am sharing the source code as a PROOF OF CONCEPT. You can jump straight to the end if you are more curious about the results than by the technical stuff Iβm about to resume. We are reusing the previous code with Node.js, Puppeteer & Grafana.
https://jorislacance.fr/blog/2021/04/16/whatsapp-tracking-2
π‘ Hack the WhatsApp status to track contacts
https://jorislacance.fr/blog/2020/04/01/whatsapp-tracking
π‘ How a WhatsApp status loophole is aiding cyberstalkers
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/2018
π‘ Sudden New Warning Will Surprise Millions Of WhatsApp Users
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/1987
π‘ All the Numbers are US: Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers (PDF)
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/2042
#DeleteWhatsapp #user #tracking #whatsapp #thinkabout #change
π‘ @nogoolag π‘ @blackbox_archiv
In the previous blog post, we have seen that this is quite simple to hack the WhatsApp online status of a contact. A simple Online or last seen yesterday at 19:00 insight can be reverse engineered to leak phone habits at a couple of seconds accuracy.
βΌοΈ There is an even more silly thing not mentioned yet: You can track any mobile phone ! So letβs play and scale to track 5000 random numbers.
Like previously, I am sharing the source code as a PROOF OF CONCEPT. You can jump straight to the end if you are more curious about the results than by the technical stuff Iβm about to resume. We are reusing the previous code with Node.js, Puppeteer & Grafana.
https://jorislacance.fr/blog/2021/04/16/whatsapp-tracking-2
π‘ Hack the WhatsApp status to track contacts
https://jorislacance.fr/blog/2020/04/01/whatsapp-tracking
π‘ How a WhatsApp status loophole is aiding cyberstalkers
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/2018
π‘ Sudden New Warning Will Surprise Millions Of WhatsApp Users
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/1987
π‘ All the Numbers are US: Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers (PDF)
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/2042
#DeleteWhatsapp #user #tracking #whatsapp #thinkabout #change
π‘ @nogoolag π‘ @blackbox_archiv
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