{"id":9753,"date":"2026-09-08T13:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/wechat-zero-click-worm-took-over-accounts-on-iphone-and-android-via-incoming-calls\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:11:33","slug":"wechat-zero-click-worm-took-over-accounts-on-iphone-and-android-via-incoming-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/wechat-zero-click-worm-took-over-accounts-on-iphone-and-android-via-incoming-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"WeChat Zero-Click Worm Took Over Accounts on iPhone and Android via Incoming Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bResearchers at the security firm Calif have built a worm that takes over a WeChat account via an incoming call and\u00a0demonstrated it spreading\u00a0among three test phones.<\/p>\n<p>The person being called does not have to answer or touch their phone for it to work, but the caller must already be one of their WeChat contacts. Calif reported the flaw to Tencent in July and says the company has since\u00a0Researchers at the security firm Calif have built a worm that takes over a WeChat account via an incoming call and\u00a0demonstrated it spreading\u00a0among three test phones.<\/p>\n<p>The person being called does not have to answer or touch their phone for it to work, but the caller must already be one of their WeChat contacts. Calif reported the flaw to Tencent in July and says the company has since\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bResearchers at the security firm Calif have built a worm that takes over a WeChat account via an incoming call and\u00a0demonstrated it spreading\u00a0among three test phones. The person being called does not have to answer or touch their phone for it to work, but the caller must already be one of their WeChat contacts. Calif&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/wechat-zero-click-worm-took-over-accounts-on-iphone-and-android-via-incoming-calls\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WeChat Zero-Click Worm Took Over Accounts on iPhone and Android via Incoming Calls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9754,"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\/9753"}],"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=9753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}