--- title: How WhatsApp & Gmail Get Hacked! | daily.dev description: Your private chats and emails are one click away from being HACKED! 🔓📲 [The "Browser-in-Browser" attack] This is how hackers control WhatsApp, Gmail or any... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-whatsapp-gmail-get-hacked--wdf03reva twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How WhatsApp & Gmail Get Hacked! | daily.dev og:description: Your private chats and emails are one click away from being HACKED! 🔓📲 [The "Browser-in-Browser" attack] This is how hackers control WhatsApp, Gmail or any... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-whatsapp-gmail-get-hacked--wdf03reva og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WDf03reva.png og:image:alt: How WhatsApp & Gmail Get Hacked! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How WhatsApp & Gmail Get Hacked! **[zSecurity](https://daily.dev/sources/zsecurity)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Your private chats and emails are one click away from being HACKED! 🔓📲 [The "Browser-in-Browser" attack] This is how hackers control WhatsApp, Gmail or any other account. The scariest part? Even if 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication) turned on, it won’t stop this. You log in, they take over the session! Along with your password. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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