WhatsApp is warning that threat actors are exploiting a security flaw to malicious ends – urging those targeted to patch their software ASAP.
Unnamed threat actors may have deployed attacks on “specific targeted users,” the Meta-owned company said last week in a security advisory.
The company also sent individual notices to the targeted people.
‘A sophisticated attack’
Tracked as CVE-2025-55177, this critical weakness is described as “Incomplete authorization of linked device synchronizat