Researchers Find Counterfeit Phones with Backdoor to Hack WhatsApp Accounts | allinfosecnews.com

Aug. 22, 2022, 2:28 p.m. | noreply@blogger.com (Ravie Lakshmanan)

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Budget Android device models that are counterfeit versions associated with popular smartphone brands are harboring multiple trojans designed to target WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business messaging apps.
The trojans, which Doctor Web first came across in July 2022, were discovered in the system partition of at least four different smartphones: P48pro, radmi note 8, Note30u, and Mate40, was
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