WhatsApp, Hamas and Nasrin Qadri: Five most viewed articles this year in Walla! TECH

2019 was a year of innovations, when we finally saw some real innovation in the smartphone world with the first folding smartphone. It was another year full of Pike News, and not only, but Yemeni hackers experimented with the Israeli public. These were the 5 most viewed articles

WhatsApp, Hamas and Nasrin Qadri: Five most viewed articles this year in Walla! TECH

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The year 2019 was filled with exciting news, big tensions and unseen visions coming in all areas. In the tech world in particular, we saw great innovations in the smartphone world with the display of folding screens, the rise of virtual currencies and countless other innovations, however, on the other hand, we also saw the rise of viruses, bots and discovered that our privacy was lost, perhaps forever. Between the never-ending WhatsApp updates and the non-stop manufacturers trying to reinvent the wheel. Among the network that never stopped commenting and laughing at everything and the Peak News breaking record this year, more than any previous year. This year we made it to Walla! TECH about 1,000 articles and the response was greater than we expected. We have summarized the five most read articles this year.

5. "The Secret Trick: This is how you read messages in Wetsap without the other party knowing"

The March issue has generated a lot of discourse on social networks. This hidden feature of Wetsap is just one of many that the messaging platform hides safely. If you received a message on Wetsap, you can't really comment but do you want to read the message? Or else, do you know that if you clicked and turned blue, the other side would be very angry? So without turning it off completely, which means that even if you don't see who read your messages, we've found a simple way for iPhone and Android users to read text messages on Wetsap without the other party knowing.

The secret trick: This is how to read messages on Wetsap without the other party knowing

Wattsap (Photo: ShutterStock)

Wattsap (Photo: ShutterStock)

4. "'Hamas Calls on Israeli Citizens and Locates Their Locations': The False Message Distributed in Wetsap"

Did you get a message in Wetsap that Hamas is calling from a strange number and if you answer the call then it will locate your location and even save the location to launch a rocket in the future? So of course this is Pike News, and of course we made sure to report that. Israeli citizens have received this message from many sources - making it a classic case of spreading false news on a scale that only continues to grow from time to time. There have been countless other announcements, but after two rounds of fighting in the South that occurred this year, it is clear where the confusion and wonder about it came from. Needless to say, if you got it, the best choice would be to delete it, and soon.

"Hamas Calls on Israeli Citizens and Locates Locations": The False Message Distributed in Wetsap

The false message distributed on Wetsap (screenshot)

Hamas distributes Pike News in Wetsap (photo: screenshot, screenshot)

3. "Don't Believe Who's Behind Distributed Naked Photos by Singer Nasrin Kadri"

Keep up with the Pike News that flooded us, even the famous singer Nasrin Kadri suffered her own false affair. During the month of August, the singer began posting "nude pictures" on the social network with the aim of dropping unsuspecting surfers. This is a "phishing" attempt, which in some cases was designed to steal the login information for Facebook accounts, but this time the attempt was more complex and also meant to steal money on the backs of the people who clicked on the link. Israeli Cyber ​​Check Point has helped us find out who is really behind the spread of the false message.

You will not believe who is behind the distribution of "nude pictures" by singer Nasrin Kadri

False message distributed by singer Nasrin Kadri (screenshot)

Nasrin Qadri - Naked Image Distribution Attempt (Photo: Screenshot, Screenshot)

2. "'I almost passed away today': the traction that managed to stir the network"

One April this year was particularly entertaining, with a huge variety of companies and organizations stretching their customers. It is an international holiday, when tensions appear to be only increasing year by year. In Israel, too, we saw this with a particularly cruel tension, whose boundary between being such and being amusing is thinner than anything else we have ever seen. During the stretch, spouses taunt their spouse for having a lover. They did this by sending a message that was intended for him, but was sent by mistake. The reactions on the web, as expected and as requested, were particularly furious.

"I almost passed away today": the traction that managed to upset the network

"Expect Injury." The facelift caused by Facebook (screenshot)

Stretching girls writing for couple who have lover (Photo: Screenshot)

1. "It's probably on your device: Uninstall the CamScanner app right away!"

And in the first place, you discovered the popular document scanning app. The Cam Skinner app has helped tens and thousands of other students, students and other office workers in Israel to scan their documents easily and efficiently through the smartphone camera. The world has already had it downloaded to over 100 million people, making the bad news so exciting that we didn't even expect it. Security experts Kaspersky said they found spyware inside the free version of the popular document scanning app. The app has primarily shown advertisements within the smartphone, and sometimes even downloaded more apps to devices without the user's consent. Researchers found the spyware after identifying suspicious, also user-identified behavior that reported low ratings on the Google Play Store app page.

It's probably on your device: Uninstall the CamScanner app right away!

CamScanner app (screenshot)

CamScanner Logo (Photo: screenshot)