Other than the $1 yearly service fee, the cost of using WhatsApp is diminutive as the amount of Internet traffic it uses is very low. WhatsApp does not bill for each message sent or received. WhatsApp has client apps on all popular mobile platforms including Android, iOS, Blackberry, the Nokia phones, Microsoft Windows Phone 8.x and Windows 10 Mobile, serving as an effective replacement for text and multimedia messaging and enabling true cross-platform communications on the go. Recognizing its popularity, Facebook has paid $22 billion for the company. With more than 900 million active accounts, WhatsApp is the number one messenger in North America and parts of Europe. WhatsApp is one of the world’s most popular instant messengers.

Why the new tool, and how is it different from other extraction options offered by Elsomsoft’s mobile forensic tools? Before we move on to that, let’s have a look at the current state of WhatsApp.

Targeted at home users and forensic experts along, this Windows-based, iOS-centric tool offers a bunch of extraction options for WhatsApp databases. We have recently released a brand new product, Elcomsoft Explorer for WhatsApp.

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