WhatsApp will incorporate a tool to further protect your phone

07/10/2018 – The latest beta version of WhatsApp for Android, issue 2.18.204, is working on a new tool designed to detect and inform users of links that have suspicious characteristics, according to the specialized website in the WaBetainfo messenger.

With the boom of the service, owned by Facebook, cases of spam have also increased: messages with links that present a risk either by cheating, phishing attempts, content with malware or even, new doubtful reliability . [19659002] The suspect link finder, which was discovered in the app's code, will be called Suspicious Link Detection and so it seems very soon that it will reach all devices with Android, for the moment in its beta version, until it is established in the definitive and stable version.

Once we receive a link that the WhatsApp servers consider suspicious, this will mark it as a red message that will receive the recipient of the message to warn of the dangerous potential of the same message

You will also be informed of the danger that the link you are about to send may involve. This badysis will take place locally, since the message sent to WhatsApp servers is encrypted. It is impossible to understand its contents once it leaves the terminal, at least until it reaches its destination and it decrypts it on its phone.

At no time will the links be blocked or censored, but in practice they will be marked. A warning message will prevent many users from accessing dangerous pages that can install any type. of malicious software on their phone or fool them.