{"id":6162,"date":"2025-11-18T17:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/meta-expands-whatsapp-security-research-with-new-proxy-tool-and-4m-in-bounties-this-year\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:12:24","slug":"meta-expands-whatsapp-security-research-with-new-proxy-tool-and-4m-in-bounties-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/meta-expands-whatsapp-security-research-with-new-proxy-tool-and-4m-in-bounties-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Expands WhatsApp Security Research with New Proxy Tool and $4M in Bounties This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMeta on Tuesday said it has made available a tool called WhatsApp Research Proxy to some of its long-time bug bounty researchers to help improve the program and more effectively research the messaging platform&#8217;s network protocol.<br \/>\nThe idea is to make it easier to delve into WhatsApp-specific technologies as the application continues to be a lucrative attack surface for state-sponsored actors and\u00a0Meta on Tuesday said it has made available a tool called WhatsApp Research Proxy to some of its long-time bug bounty researchers to help improve the program and more effectively research the messaging platform&#8217;s network protocol.<br \/>\nThe idea is to make it easier to delve into WhatsApp-specific technologies as the application continues to be a lucrative attack surface for state-sponsored actors and\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMeta on Tuesday said it has made available a tool called WhatsApp Research Proxy to some of its long-time bug bounty researchers to help improve the program and more effectively research the messaging platform&#8217;s network protocol. The idea is to make it easier to delve into WhatsApp-specific technologies as the application continues to be a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/meta-expands-whatsapp-security-research-with-new-proxy-tool-and-4m-in-bounties-this-year\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta Expands WhatsApp Security Research with New Proxy Tool and $4M in Bounties This Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}