WhatsApp Scam That Will Steal All Your Account Data!

That’s right, a new scam of How are you has arrived and this time uses one of the oldest techniques of computer science, social engineering, however, it is very easy to avoid, but you have to be very careful with it.

There is no doubt that the weakest link in computer security and the privacy of our data are people and is that you can have the most secure system in the world, but if you manage to deceive a person who already has access because you let in, it’s the same.

It is for this reason that many data theft techniques they do not focus on violating systems, but on deceiving people.

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Sometimes it is simpler, and with little effort can be semi-automated, in fact it is the case of a new scam, which is not really new, as it has been doing for years in other countries.

However, his practice has recently spread to Spain and Latin America and has taken many by surprise.

So much so that the Catalan police, Mossos d’Esquadra, have warned about these messages scam and the danger they pose, as they would take away access to your accounts and you would lose a lot of your data, social media or even access to your bank accounts.

The attack increased in early 2020, but throughout the year, with the health contingency and so many people at home, it has spread much further.

Did you receive an SMS like this? ‘DO NOT answer !!! This is the message with the verification code for the installation. Providing it to a third party will control your account on your device and with it, access to all your groups and contacts, ”the post says on Twitter.

The truth is that it is as simple as it is effective and if you receive a message from a contact you know and tells you, simply:

Hello. I’m sorry. I sent you a 6 digit code by SMS by mistake. Can you pass it on to me? It’s urgent. “

It is a social engineering fishing technique by impersonating where the attackers enter the phone number of the WhatsApp accounts they want to obtain and activate the verification process, which sends an SMS.

It is worth mentioning that impersonation by phishing through social engineering is one of the oldest hacking techniques in computer security.

The attackers then masquerade as an acquaintance of the victim, using a WhatsApp account that they already violated and over which they already have control.

The latter is what makes many people not suspect that this is an attempt at social hacking and many people, as usual, fall into it.

This same practice could be used to try to access other accounts, not just WhatsApp, because other services, including banks, use verification via SMS, it is relatively easy to gain access.

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That is why it is so important to be very careful and never send numbers SMS verification to other people, even if they are contacts we know, as it may be an attacker posing as another person.

However, there is a solution for those who have fallen into this type of phishing scam to try to impersonate.

Fortunately the same technique used to steal an account is what makes it so easy to recover it.

Since the app relates a person and their account to their phone number, we just need to restart the process of connecting to our WhatsApp and ask them to resend the verification code via SMS, enter it and regain access.