WhatsApp said Wednesday that it has alerted about 200 users that they were duped into installing a dummy version of the app that was infected with spyware.
The Meta subsidiary alleges that Italy’s SIO spyware manufacturer designed the phony app specifically for iPhones. Most of the impacted users are in Italy, according to a WhatsApp announcement.
“We assess that the threat actors behind this malicious client used social engineering tactics to trick people outside of our app into downloading their malicious software masquerading as WhatsApp,” the announcement said.
“We want to be clear: this was not a WhatsApp vulnerability – end-to-end encryption continues to protect communications of people who are using WhatsApp’s official apps.”
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