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They lost me at "encrypted downloader". The WhatsApp video attachment format allows for...a downloader? I strongly doubt that. Perhaps what they should have wr
by gdm85 7y ago
They lost me at "encrypted downloader". The WhatsApp video attachment format allows for...a downloader? I strongly doubt that.
Perhaps what they should have written is that they cannot decrypt the video and thus check for an exploit within it (it's commonly called payload, because it doesn't have to be a downloader...).
I see from other comments here that I am not the only one doubting the report wording at the very least.
- eitland 7y agoProbably an exploit.
- makomk 7y agoNope, they seem to mean the encrypted file format used by WhatsApp to transmit and store attachments, which a competent forensics outfit should be able to decrypt: https://medium.com/@billmarczak/bezos-hack-mbs-mohammed-bin-salman-whatsapp-218e1b4e1242 https://medium.com/@billmarczak/bezos-hack-mbs-mohammed-bin-...