Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp on Thursday announced a new account verification feature that ensures that malware running on a user's mobile device doesn't impact their account.
"Mobile device malware is one of the biggest threats to people's privacy and security today because it can take advantage of your phone without your permission and use your WhatsApp to send unwanted messages,"
An unofficial version of the popular WhatsApp messaging app called YoWhatsApp has been observed deploying an Android trojan known as Triada.
The goal of the malware is to steal the keys that "allow the use of a WhatsApp accountΒ without the app," KasperskyΒ saidΒ in a new report. "If the keys are stolen, a user of a malicious WhatsApp mod can lose control over their account."
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