WhatsApp: A fake malicious app can steal personal data
from phone
Beware, WhatsApp user, your privacy may be at risk, a
fake malicious version of WhatsApp is active on internet that can steal you
data. This report has came from prestigious laboratory Malwarebytes Lab. The
report says that a tweaked version of WhatsApp app is active on web that can access
to users personal photos and misuse it.
According to Malwarebytes lab, a fake version of WhatsApp
application has been found on the web, This fake version is able to access to
one’s personal data. As you know that WhatsApp is one of the most popular apps
with over 1.5 billion monthly active users globally.
Name of fake version is WhatsApp Plus and it is shared
via a link, the tweaked version is downloaded as “an.ap” file. The App has a
gold star logo instead of the original and standard green logo of telephone
receiver and has URL and a handle written inside.
When someone click on “Agree and continue” the app show
itself as out-of –date and inspire user to install the update version immediately
from Google Play Store. The instruction message will appear like this “Please
go to Google Play Store to download the latest version.
Once user follows the instruction, the app redirected to
a dubious website that is in Arabic. The website will allow user download an
app having a strange name – Watts Plus Plus WhatsApp.
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