{"id":5774,"date":"2025-10-09T17:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/new-clayrat-spyware-targets-android-users-via-fake-whatsapp-and-tiktok-apps\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:11:55","slug":"new-clayrat-spyware-targets-android-users-via-fake-whatsapp-and-tiktok-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/new-clayrat-spyware-targets-android-users-via-fake-whatsapp-and-tiktok-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"New ClayRat Spyware Targets Android Users via Fake WhatsApp and TikTok Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA rapidly evolving Android spyware campaign called ClayRat has targeted users in Russia using a mix of Telegram channels and lookalike phishing websites by impersonating popular apps like WhatsApp, Google Photos, TikTok, and YouTube as lures to install them.<br \/>\n&#8220;Once active, the spyware can exfiltrate SMS messages, call logs, notifications, and device information; taking photos with the front\u00a0A rapidly evolving Android spyware campaign called ClayRat has targeted users in Russia using a mix of Telegram channels and lookalike phishing websites by impersonating popular apps like WhatsApp, Google Photos, TikTok, and YouTube as lures to install them.<br \/>\n&#8220;Once active, the spyware can exfiltrate SMS messages, call logs, notifications, and device information; taking photos with the front\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA rapidly evolving Android spyware campaign called ClayRat has targeted users in Russia using a mix of Telegram channels and lookalike phishing websites by impersonating popular apps like WhatsApp, Google Photos, TikTok, and YouTube as lures to install them. &#8220;Once active, the spyware can exfiltrate SMS messages, call logs, notifications, and device information; taking photos&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/new-clayrat-spyware-targets-android-users-via-fake-whatsapp-and-tiktok-apps\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New ClayRat Spyware Targets Android Users via Fake WhatsApp and TikTok Apps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}