WhatsApp warns about fake app used in spyware campaign targeting users in Italy

WhatsApp has warned around 200 users that they were tricked into installing a fake version of the messaging app that contained spyware. Reuters reported that Meta linked the campaign to ASIGINT, a subsidiary of Italian surveillance company SIO, and said most of the targets were in Italy. The attack did not abuse WhatsApp’s official app […] The post WhatsApp warns about fake app used in spyware campaign targeting users in Italy appeared first on VPN Central.