Account hacking, viruses: WhatsApp losing control files a complaint!

For Meta, enough is enough! The company that owns Facebook and Instagram wants to get rid once and for all of the WhatsApp clones that are abounding at the moment and in particular 3 apps that contain viruses…

They are called Hey WhatsApp or Highlight Mobi or HeyMods, but these are WhatsApp clones. These applications offer “new” features, but the main goal is to steal your contact list and your personal data to spam your friends. Of course Google is cleaning up the Play Store, but that’s not enough since they often come back under other names. In addition, these applications are found on alternative stores in the form of an APK file to install yourself with all the security risks that we know.

Meta sues three developers for launching fake WhatsApp apps https://t.co/efAK2RY70X

— Threat Intelligence (@threatintel) October 8, 2022

WhatsAppp gets to the root of the problem

WhatsApp has long been aware of this issue and started by banning users for 24 hours who were tempted to use it. But given the scale of the phenomenon – we are talking here about a million compromised accounts since May 2022 just for these three apps – Meta has decided to react directly against the publishers, especially since in these specific cases, it It’s more about malware contamination than just brand name interference.

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Thus the American firm filed a complaint against the companies Rockey Tech (Hong Kong), Luokai Technology (China) and ChitChat Technology (Taiwan) at the origin of these three clones. Victim of its own success, WhatsApp is used by 2 billion people: the temptation is great to surf on a very well-known name to gain credit and more easily cheat people…