Your money can disappear in just one click. All the blame for the infinite virus that runs on none other than WhatsApp, the messaging app that until now was considered a kind of happy island away from malware and which instead got hit in turn.
Indeed it would be better to say it was hurt again, as this malware campaign has already targeted around 28,000 WhatsApp users in the past few months, and has struck back again these days. How?
Shighra said: With a voice message. Which is actually a Voice messages It’s not, but it’s a virus that once activated (and the famous click is enough to do it) takes and steals everything: sensitive data, passwords and above all money. All the money.
Malware Propagation on WhatsApp: They Exploit Users’ Curiosity
The principle itself is nothing short of brilliant: receiving a tone involves the emergence of a curiosity about what might be recorded there that the user can’t help but open the audio file and listen. Many people are thus affected, unaware of the fact that the received vowel is not what it seems.
In fact, Voice’s “play” button is nothing more than a link that points to another website, in turn malicious, that apparently requires consent to listen to the audio file, but that actually initiates a malware download that gets installed. By itself on your PC or mobile phone, creates a series of unimaginable damage.
“Malicious code, in fact, saves everything password Saved, those with financial services, and then criminals who then immediately send them to work, perhaps Check account” Brief explanation from industry expert analysts on how this malware works.
Another way to spread this virus, which can easily be identified as a cyber scam, is through email. Basically you get an email asking you to open an audio via a link that should open, he says, directly in WhatsApp. But the instant messaging app isn’t used to sending emails to its users, without reason, so it’s easy to detect scam attempts (unless you’re in a hurry to open your mail) and avoid being “snapped” by everyone. Our stuff and sensitive information.
