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Facebook has issued a warning for WhatsApp after having discovered a new security threat that allowed hackers to access someone's data simply by sending them a malicious video file as a message. Victims will receive a malware-laden video file from an unknown number which will play like any other normal MP4 media file, but give the hacker access to the victim's phone in the background. Even the recent Pegasus scandal that affected journalists, politicians, and human rights activists in India, all it took was a missed WhatsApp call to let the spyware snoop on victims....