A new report has warned about a cloned, third-party unofficial version of WhatsApp that is spying on people’s chats in the country. The app is called GB WhatsApp, a popular but cloned third-party version of WhatsApp.
The cloned app is not available on Google Play, meaning that there are no security checks in place compared with the legitimate WhatsApp, and versions available on various download websites are infiltrated with malware.
ESET’s T2 2022 Threat Report noted that India is among the countries with the highest Android trojan detections. Meta-owned WhatsApp is currently banning accounts that use unsupported apps, according to the report. Android threat detection surged 9.5 percent in 2022.
India (35 percent) was also ranked second after China (53 percent) as the geolocation for bots making up the largest internet of things (IoT) botnet called ‘Mozi’ from May to August 2022. However, China and India continued to have the highest number of IoT bots geolocated inside the respective countries.
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