New WhatsApp Flaws Could Affect Billions of Users After Meta Security Patch
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What happened
TechRepublic security feed (early May 2026) summarizing multiple high-impact incidents and patches: Meta fixed two WhatsApp flaws affecting iOS, Android and Windows; Google patched an Android zero-click RCE and Chrome received fixes for 30 vulnerabilities (including four critical); Microsoft confirmed an exploited Windows zero-click flaw and fixed a Defender false positive that affected DigiCert certificates; threat actors abused Google AppSheet to phish ~30,000 Facebook business accounts; BlueNoroff/Lazarus used fake meeting links and fileless PowerShell to steal credentials; a reported Instr
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