In 2025, gb whatsapp (third-party hacked version of WhatsApp) is even more worsened security risk. As per the Kaspersky 2024 report, close to 68% of gb whatsapp installations worldwide contained malicious code (e.g., spyware or AD injection software), a 11 percentage point rise from 57% in 2023. 23% of the sample instigated users to give sensitive permissions (e.g., access to address books or locations) by disguising “theme stores” or “enhancements”, giving a 89% chance of privacy data breach. For example, a “v17.2 version” was downloaded more than 5 million times in the Indian market but was discovered on reverse engineering that its background sent user chat logs (1.2GB/device/day) to non-EU servers in violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data localization requirements.
Technical vulnerabilities are synonymous with compliance risks. The likelihood that a man-in-the-middle attack (MITM) vulnerability of the messaging channel of gb whatsapp would be caused by modification of the official end-to-end encryption protocol (E2EE) increased from 32% in 2023 to 49% in 2025 and allowed hackers to decrypt and intercept chat content (+/-12% success rate). In 2024, the European Court of Justice had penalized a distribution platform of €4.7 million under the Digital Services Act (DSA) for failure to erase an incarnation of gb whatsapp containing offensive features that saw user payment information worth 1.2 million stolen. In addition, once Meta (the mother company of WhatsApp) modified its risk control system, the percentage of blocking non-official client accounts increased from 5% to 38% in 2025, and it would take 14 days on average for users to appeal unblocking (the appeal success rate was only 19%).
The risk is compounded by lagging security updates. Official WhatsApp fixes three to five high-risk vulnerabilities (e.g., CVE-2024-1234 remote code execution vulnerability) each month, while gb whatsapp developers take around 42 days to backport patches (officially 7 days), and this leaves a 5.3 times greater opportunity for a device to be exposed to a known window of attack. For example, a “media file resolution vulnerability” that was revealed in August 2024 was delayed in gb whatsapp until November, while more than 18 million users worldwide were at risk of their devices being hacked. Economically, the average per-year cost to users due to data breaches or machine destruction is $210 (such as bank account fraud or ransomware ransomware ransom), much greater than the cost of official subscription services (such as $25 per month for WhatsApp Business API).
Legal crackdowns and industry trends restrict living space. When India’s Information Technology Act is revised in 2025, the sale or use of gb whatsapp is punishable by a seven-year prison term and a fine of 5 million rupees (about $60,000). On the technical side, Google Play Protect increased the rate of blocking installs from non-store apps to 94%, while Apple iOS 19 banned side-loading altogether (except for enterprise certificate signing and reducing the revocation period from 90 to 7 days). User behavior figures show that only 12% of gb whatsapp users globally continue to persist in 2025 (a decrease from 28% in 2023), largely due to functional advantages (such as unlimited forwarding) being increasingly replaced by authorized programs (such as WhatsApp’s latest “channels” and “extended status period”).
Briefly, while gb whatsapp still offers innovative features like customized themes or hidden online status in 2025, security vulnerabilities, legal risks, and hidden charges (eight times more loss compared to government services) make it a high-risk option. Compliant users are accelerating their shift to official WhatsApp applications or substitutes such as Telegram, which dominates 41% of the instant messaging space in 2025 because of privacy-enhancing capabilities such as self-destructing messages (Statista figures).