(WhatsApp) has revealed some new features that aim to protect users' accounts from being stolen through malware.
"We believe in WhatsApp in the necessity to provide privacy and protection for your messages, just as it is the case with any personal conversation," the Mita-owned messaging service said in a publication.
She added: “Protecting your personal messages with end-to-end encryption is by default the basis of this protection, and we will never stop developing new features to give you additional levels of privacy and a greater degree of control over your messages.”
Over the coming months, WhatsApp will add three new protection features: account protection, device verification, and automatic security codes.
WhatsApp indicated that, to increase protection, users can activate two important features: two-factor authentication and the use of fully encrypted backups between the two parties.
It is noteworthy that WhatsApp introduced the end-to-end encryption feature 7 years ago, in April of 2016, then introduced the end-to-end encrypted backup feature for Android and (iOS) in October 2021 to block access to chat contents. , regardless of where it is stored.
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