More than a million people downloaded fake WhatsApp (3 photos)
Google Play detected a fake version of the popular throughout the world WhatsApp messenger. It quite successfully pretended to be an official update to the original program. Fake bore the name of the Update of WhatsApp Messenger and it downloaded over a million users. To succeed, the attacker skillfully forged not only the app logo, but the name of a true developed by WhatsApp Inc.
To do this, the author of the fake was replaced by a space symbol is a special character from the Unicode tables, which visually looks the same as the pass between words. Looked design: WhatsApp + Inc% C2% A0. Because of this, differences are not spotted neither Google employees nor consumers.
Directly harm consumers indicated a forgery in this case is not applied. She’s just touting other applications, for which the creators about version of WhatsApp received a reward. However, this same hole can be useful and in order to steal victims ‘ personal information. People who have installed the official version of the messenger, was not injured. At the moment Google has already removed the questionable clone and blocked its developer, but there is no guarantee that such will not happen again. While protection from this deception is not invented.
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