WhatsApp [19659003] Novelty has already begun to be available in Android in the beta version of the app, giving a red alert to users whenever a suspicious link is sent. With that, the idea is to prevent more unsuspecting people from accessing pages with malicious content or online fraud. There is still no release date for the update with the new feature.
The new security system focuses on detecting URLs containing special characters, which can easily be mistaken for trusted sites because letters have a small dot below them, as we can see in the letters "W" in the following image:
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WhatsApp's new suspicious links detection tool is part of the company's plans to improve security and ensure user privacy. In addition, the application has also set up a false news filtering and notification system of the messages transferred. Also this Friday (20), the application began to test a way to limit the transmission of messages. In all cases, the calls were made due to cases of violence caused by the spread of false news in the application
Source: WABetaInfo, Mashable
