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Alarms sound for iPhone users. cybercriminals they created a fake version of WhatsApp and it is aimed only at mobile phones with iOS.
According to the Spanish newspaper ABC, the fake version of WhatsApp is very similar to the original and its creation is intended to steal information about Apple users and their mobile devices.
It was the cybersecurity company ZecOps who in recent days detected the fake version of the messaging platform that belongs to Facebook, so he made public his discovery on Twitter, which included a domain and an IP address.
Following the announcement of ZecOps, cybersecurity firms Citizen Lab and Motherboard they conducted investigations and found that the discovered domain was trying to trick iPhone users into installing the fake version of WhatsApp.
Cybercriminals did an almost impeccable job of deceiving users of iPhone. They built a page with a design very similar to the original, and in this include brand of How are you and instructions on how to install the application.
The hacked application has a malicious file that allows cybercriminals to obtain information such as UDID code, which is to say is unique to each iPhone, In addition to the IMEI code. However, experts from Citizen Lab they could not find out what other data the virus was receiving.
After the fake WhatsApp alert, cybersecurity experts remind users, counting from iOS as Android, to always download apps from the official sites of each platform.
In the case of iPhone phones it is through the App Store, while users who prefer Android the official download site is the Google Play Store.