WhatsApp is, today, instant messaging platform with more users worldwide. 2,000 million people use the finish line to talk to family, friends and all kinds of contacts.
Precisely for this reason, it is also usual to be a magnet for cybercriminals, who use it to design many of their most common scams.
Lately, not only the cases of phishingwith fraudulent messages that are passed through any type of entity, from the DGT to the Aemet, but also some hackers pull social engineering to deceive people. Many experts, including the National Police itself echoes. Nevertheless, There is a trick to avoid all these dangers.
WhatsApp, a true reef for cybercounts
As the authorities usually show, the scams by WhatsApp grow every day. Especially a type of fraud that especially worries specialists of all kinds: the possibility of kidnapping your account. How do thieves usually do it? Usually using their manipulation skills so that people pique and give it to themselves.
The thing usually works like this: Cybercriminals get access to the victim’s phone number and request the six -digit verification code that WhatsApp sends by SMS.
Sometimes they achieve it simply by cheating the user to share it. Once the attacker has access, he blocks the original user and uses the account to contact his family or friends.
Something similar happens with other scams also of maximum news: the so -called «scam of the son or daughter in trouble», in which the scammer pretends to be a similar son (or someone similar) who writes from an alleged new number for having lost his mobile. Through emotional or urgent messages, he asks for an immediate transfer of money. It is a simple, but very effective deception.
Although knowing this type of threat is always the best way to be safe from them, there is also another way to increase security at WhatsApp. And best of all, activating it does not carry more than a few seconds, and it is not necessary to be a great cybersecurity expert to do so. You just have to follow some simple steps that we tell you below.
How to activate two steps of WhatsApp
Although there are people who do not know, WhatsApp has a security function that few users usually take advantage of, but that works when protecting: two steps verification. This option adds a second layer of protection to your account, preventing third parties from accessing it even if you get your SMS verification code.
To activate it You just have to go into the app configuration, in settings, give account and activate where it specifically puts two steps verification. The tool will ask that you enter a six -digit code that only you know (and an email, in case you forget it). An extremely simple practice, but that can save you more than one scare.
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