#Telegram's founder Pavel Durov has accused WhatsApp of being a surveillance tool after hackers were able to hack into smartphones of various users, because of a vulnerability in WhatsApp's video sharing and playback features. The messaging app WhatsApp has been nothing but a surveillance tool for prying eyes.

#Meta recently revealed that WhatsApp users can get hacked because of a vulnerability in their video downloading and playback, which hackers can use to get full access to just about everything that’s on the WhatsApp user’s phone. This not only includes your emails and photos, but also other communications, especially SMSes from your banks, and app data from your banking and payment apps.

Talking about WhatsApp's security and privacy, WhatsApp claims to provide end-to-end encryption for all texts, chats, and video calls. However, many times the app has been victim to bugs and security issues that often-raised questions about its privacy.

GB #WhatsApp is a clone of the Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp, which may be spying on Indian users and reading their chats, according to a report by ESET, the maker of NOD32 antivirus. The cloned third-party version of WhatsApp isn’t available on Google Play. Hence, the versions of the clone app available on various download websites are riddled with malware.

This is not the first time that the Telegram founder has dragged WhatsApp for being prone to security issues. Earlier, Durov said that 'WhatsApp will never be secure' unless the company makes some fundamental changes to it. But till then he advised people to stay away from the app to save their smartphones from being hacked.

Last month WhatsApp issued a notice about a bug that was patched in newer versions of the app. The “critical” rated security vulnerability would have affected WhatsApp's Android app and allowed hackers to remotely send malware on a user's smartphone during a video call..