{"id":801,"date":"2024-05-10T11:31:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T11:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/malicious-android-apps-pose-as-google-instagram-whatsapp-spread-via-smishing\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T11:31:07","slug":"malicious-android-apps-pose-as-google-instagram-whatsapp-spread-via-smishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/malicious-android-apps-pose-as-google-instagram-whatsapp-spread-via-smishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Android Apps Pose as Google, Instagram, WhatsApp, Spread via Smishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMalicious Android apps masquerading as Google, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and X (formerly Twitter) have been observed to steal users&#8217; credentials from compromised devices.<br \/>\n&#8220;This malware uses famous Android app icons to mislead users and trick victims into installing the malicious app on their devices,&#8221; the SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team\u00a0said\u00a0in a recent report.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0Malicious Android apps masquerading as Google, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and X (formerly Twitter) have been observed to steal users&#8217; credentials from compromised devices.<br \/>\n&#8220;This malware uses famous Android app icons to mislead users and trick victims into installing the malicious app on their devices,&#8221; the SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team\u00a0said\u00a0in a recent report.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMalicious Android apps masquerading as Google, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and X (formerly Twitter) have been observed to steal users&#8217; credentials from compromised devices. &#8220;This malware uses famous Android app icons to mislead users and trick victims into installing the malicious app on their devices,&#8221; the SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team\u00a0said\u00a0in a recent report. The\u00a0Malicious&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/malicious-android-apps-pose-as-google-instagram-whatsapp-spread-via-smishing\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Malicious Android Apps Pose as Google, Instagram, WhatsApp, Spread via Smishing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":802,"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\/801"}],"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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}