Spy Alert! Hackers steal sensitive information of iPhone users via fake WhatsApp app
This messaging platform is often used to share exclusive and sensitive information and tapping on this opportunity, hackers often make a fake WhatsApp app to do illegal activities. Here’s how hackers create the fake app to spy on iPhone users:
WhatsApp has been embroiled in controversy with its privacy policies. But trouble doesn’t want to come down as now hackers have allegedly used the messaging app to spy iPhone users and a site has been potentially targeting these users to download the domain config5-dati [.] App.
This messaging platform is often used to share exclusive and sensitive information and tapping on this opportunity, hackers often make a fake WhatsApp app to do illegal activities.
Here’s how hackers create the fake app to spy on iPhone users:
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A site was supposed to be tricking iPhone users to download the domain config5-dati [.] App which was not even a configuration file for the iPhone and it was collecting sensitive details of the users. Bill Markjak, a researcher at Citizen Lab revealed that it was targeted but there was no attempt to spread it.
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