Meta has introduced the WhatsApp Research Proxy tool to facilitate research into WhatsApp’s network protocol, aiming to improve security and understand platform abuse. The company emphasizes efforts to lower barriers for researchers, backed by over $25 million paid in bug bounties and recent security updates addressing vulnerabilities and data exposure issues. #WhatsAppResearchProxy #BugBounty #CVE-2025-59489 #WhatsAppSecurity
Keypoints
- Meta has launched WhatsApp Research Proxy to support security research on the messaging platform.
- Over the past 15 years, Meta has paid more than $25 million in bug bounties to global researchers.
- Recent vulnerabilities include bugs that could enable content processing attacks and remote code execution.
- WhatsApp faced a privacy flaw allowing enumeration of 3.5 billion phone numbers via contact discovery features.
- Meta implemented anti-scraping protections after discovering mass account enumeration across multiple countries.
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