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The alarms go off for the users of iPhones. Cyber criminals They have created a fake version of WhatsApp and it is only for mobile phones with iOS.
According to the ABC newspaper of Spain, the fake version of WhatsApp It is very similar to the original and its creation aims to steal information about Apple users and their mobile devices.
It was the cybersecurity company ZecOps that in recent days it discovered the fake version of Facebook’s messaging platform, for which it made its discovery public on Twitter, including a domain and an IP address.
After the announcement of ZecOps, cybersecurity companies Citizen Lab y Motherboard They investigated and found that the discovered domain was trying to trick iPhone users into installing the fake version of WhatsApp.
The cyber criminals have the users of iPhone. They built a page with a design very similar to the original, and they took a mark from it WhatsApp and instructions for installing the application.
The pirate application has a malicious file that allows cyber criminals to obtain information, such as the Udid code, which is unique to each iPhone, next to the IMEI code. Experts of Citizen Lab they could not find out what other data the virus received.
After the fake WhatsApp warning, cybersecurity experts remind users, both iOS and Android, to always download applications from the official sites of each platform.
In the case of iPhones, this is through the App Store, while users who prefer Android, the official download site is the Google Play Store.