'Android Worm' Malware is Spreading Via WhatsApp User Contact List
Security expert Lucas Stefanko unearthed the malware known as ‘Android Worm’. Threat actors are using this malware as a weapon to send malicious messages to WhatsApp users and extract critical information or shutting their accounts entirely. ‘Android Worm’ make an entrance into a user phone as a disguised message and then corrupts the victim’s contact list without the victim being aware of it. Lucas Stefanko shared a video detailing the android worm malware – “Android WhatsApp Worm? Malware spreads via victim’s WhatsApp by automatically replying to any received WhatsApp message notification with a link to malicious Huawei Mobile app. The message is sent only once per hour to the same contact. It looks to be adware or subscription scam”. The malware enters a user phone via message and then uploads adware onto a users’ device and expands by sending WhatsApp messages to the victim’s contact list and keeping the victim in a dark. As per the reports of The Sun, initially, the vi...
