Dearth the Security of Smartphone Messaging Application : Whatsapp

The domination of social networking applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Viber continues to grow exponentially with WhatsApp being the undisputed leader amongst a vast series of social networking and chat messengers with more than 600 million users worldwide and being the number one paid application in more than 131 countries. Arguably privacy is a key draw for social media such as facebook, viber, whatsapp users when it comes to any mobile chat option and as a leader on the market WhatsApp has found itself in some hot water after researchers called out a potential security vulnerability. Generally WhatsApp is a very popular messenger for smart devices only. This paper demonstrates how to capture the password of targate device WhatsApp account using the different gateway level proxies like SSL/TLS proxy, MITM proxy. Once attacker received this password attacker can use it to communicate to the WhatsApp main servers directly or via a local framework.