At times, the curiosity is very dangerous, and there are many users who have at some time wanted to be able to eavesdrop on the WhatsApp of his friends.
The criminals you know, that’s why they take advantage of this desire to steal data from the victims or to install malware in their smartphones.
The Research Laboratory of the firm of ESET has detected a new campaign that uses as the hook for the possibility of hack WhatsApp of our contacts to get the phone number and other personal data to use them in a malicious manner, for example, to subscribe to services of premium SMS.
The campaign spreads via a message from WhatsApp that in most cases refers to one of our contacts. The text ensures that you can already see who you are talking to your friends and provides a link that supposedly leads to the download of the utility.
In case you follow in the link, the victim is obliged to chare content with at least ten friends to be able to enjoy the functionality, to know who is online our contacts.
once you have shared the content with ten people, the victim is redirected to an infinite variety of windows that requested the telephone number and other personal data, and in no time comes to get the promised functionality to spy on contacts WhatsApp.
Before this, the security firm recommends that you notify friends that you have been sent the message of deception and make contact with the operator of the line to verify that not have subscribed to a messaging service premium.
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