During a briefing at the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on August 7, researchers from Israeli security company Check Point revealed how Facebook-owned WhatsApp could be hacked to change the text of a message and the identity of the sender.

Shai Alfasi, a researcher at cybersecurity research firm Reason Labs, released results from a study last week that looked at a specific type of malware that "weaponized" a legitimate coronavirus map application created by Johns Hopkins Health.

The Israeli cybersecurity company found a vulnerability that would have enabled hackers to extract personal data about users.

I’ve already reported on the dangers online, as hackers hide behind our coronavirus obsession to target us with malicious malware.