Beware of the new #WhatsApp scam that tricks in opening #malware sent by ‘friends’
According to The Independent, the links appear to come from a friend but leads users to a discount page which then asks for personal details. Unsuspecting users are then led to a fake website which infects the phone with malware, allowing the scammer to obtain sensitive information.
Principal security researcher at Trend Micro Lab said in the report, “We have noted that this WhatsApp scam has been actively circling for some time. It ‘speaks’ several languages so the attacks can be customized for each market.”
With more than a billion users and more than 42 billion messages exchanged around the world daily, WhatsApp is a green pasture for scammers and has been hit my many such security lapses. Last year, when WhatsApp was testing the calling feature and it wasn’t rolled out officially, there were fake messages circulating , inviting users to try the new feature and that ended up filling the phone with dangerous malware.
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