WhatsApp is at the center of an extremely important alert that was issued today for hundreds of millions of people around the world, and we are talking about a situation that should interest everyone. We are talking about an extremely serious alert vis-à-vis a new type of malware that attacks WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or other messaging platforms, and it is extremely dangerous, one of the most dangerous so far.
WhatsApp is targeted by a dangerous trojan named WolfRAT, this being a modified version of DenDroid, launched sometime around 2015, so the hackers had a place to learn. WolfRAT is hidden by hackers in fake updates of some applications or services, through various websites, Flash and Google Play Store being among the targeted applications, and after the phone is infected, a lot of data is extracted from WhatsApp, and not only that's all.
WhatsApp: ALERT Issued Today for HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of People
WhatsApp is constantly spied on by this trojan, the first measure being the activation of a recording function of everything that happens on the screen, at intervals of 50 seconds, in a loop. Separately, the sending and receiving of messages, photos, video clips via WhatsApp is monitored, separately from this, the reception of SMS, audio recording is monitored, all these files being automatically transferred to the hackers' servers without the victim knowing anything.
WhatsApp it is one of the applications for which the screen recording is activated every 50 seconds, something that is very complex for a trojan for mobile phones. The servers from which the commands for WolfRAT come, or to which the data reaches, are from Thailand, so far from any serious jurisdiction, and thus WhatsApp and many other applications are targeted by a Trojan that is too far away to be stopped in time by someone.
WhatsApp it is targeted because it is a very large messaging application, but it is important for everyone to be very careful and not to install unknown applications from unknown websites.
