His smartphone got hacked due to a mistake by Amazon founder and Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man. The cause is that he played a video.
A video came on WhatsApp and they played it. In the first short, know what the whole matter is.
For the last few days you must have been reading the news that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman hacked Jeff Bezos' phone. This news was quoted by The Guardian. It is currently under investigation.
This whole matter is of 2018. According to the report, there was a conversation between Jeff Bezos and Mohammed bin Salman on WhatsApp.
This report states that Mohammed bin Salman sent Jeff Bezos a 4.4MB file on WhatsApp. This was actually a video with Arabic text and a flag from Sweden.
Jeff Bezos opens the video file and his smartphone gets hacked. Hacked up to private communication. It is being told that the attackers have stolen their emails, photos and data. But is it possible?
Usually, phones are hacked by malware-infected videos and it is easily known in the investigation. But this is not the case.
Surprisingly, forensic experts investigated Jeff Bezos' iPhone X and found no flaws in the video sent.
But in this entire message, there were some codes that made this hacking possible. Now it is also surprising that these codes are usually not harmful, because they are necessary for sending messages.
Since end to end encryption is used in WhatsApp, it is impossible for researchers to know what this code was.
According to a CNN report, cyber security experts from the Toronto University-based Citizen Lab have said that they can provide solutions through which encrypted code can be decrypted.
However, now later it will be known what hidden codes were with this video, which caused Bezos' phone to be hacked.
We have also told you earlier that phone hacking is happening from a video file. But this is different and quite complicated hacking.
Actually video file is a tool for hackers. Remote code execution means RCE. This way, hackers attack a target device and can run commands.
Attackers send and create such videos and the code is triggered as soon as it is played and then the files are shared remotely.
In such an attack, the hackers get complete access to the phone and after that they can either corrupt all the data of the phone or use it incorrectly.
WhatsApp is the most used in India and in such a situation you should definitely be alert. But such complex hacking is not done on the smartphones of ordinary people.
If you are the CEO of a big company, a big leader or a minister, then you can be targeted in this way.
Cyber security experts believe that WhatsApp these days is a soft target for hackers to send infected files. Since now people have become conscious about email, but people still do not hesitate to open the file on WhatsApp.
