Meta Platforms Inc. won a key court ruling that the company’s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don’t violate US antitrust law, a blow to the federal government which has sought to break up the company for the past five years.

The case, which was initially filed five years ago, centered around whether the deals allowed Meta to maintain a monopoly over social networking

Meta has introduced new tools to help cybersecurity researchers find bugs in WhatsApp. In a new blog post discussing the success of its Bug Bounty program over the last 15 years, Meta said the researchers asked for a product that would help them investigate WhatsApp-specific technologies better, and in response, it built WhatsApp Research Proxy.

Meta will not have to sell Instagram and WhatsApp after winning an antitrust suit against the federal government.

Meta ha superado un desafío existencial para su negocio que podría haber obligado al gigante tecnológico a desprenderse de Instagram y WhatsApp después de que un juez dictaminara que la empresa no tiene un monopolio en las redes sociales.

Meta has expanded its bug bounty program for WhatsApp, announcing new incentives to improve security research on the messaging platform alongside a $4 million

Researchers have uncovered a WhatsApp privacy flaw that allowed them to discover the 3.5 billion mobile numbers using the app globally, and possibly infer the identities of some of the people behind them.

Austrian researchers used a WhatsApp contact-lookup flaw to map 3.5 billion phone numbers, revealing how basic metadata can build a directory of accounts.

WhatsApp is preparing a new interoperability feature that will let users in Europe message people on supported third-party apps directly from WhatsApp. The update isn’t live yet, but Meta says it’s coming soon as part of its DMA-driven compliance.