The popular messaging application WhatsApp recently made headlines when it was acquired by Facebook for a staggering $16 billion. Cybercriminals didn’t waste much time to capitalize on this bit of news: barely a week after the official announcement, we saw a spam attack that claims that a desktop version of the popular mobile app is…
Read MoreMobile threats can arrive via different methods. We have discussed at length the presence of malware in third-party app stores and even official app stores. We have also mentioned malware via text messages. We recently found one that took advantage of yet another method: spam. We encountered samples of spammed messages that were supposedly WhatsApp…
Read MoreWe were alerted to a scam that is currently found on Facebook. It’s worth noting that this scam uses the mobile messaging app WhatsApp. Users may encounter this scam via Facebook notification requests or contacts’ “Likes”. The scam takes off like a typical scam: users are redirected to a fake WhatsApp Facebook page that requires…
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