{"id":128401,"date":"2021-04-09T05:59:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T04:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=128401"},"modified":"2024-04-08T16:49:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T16:49:33","slug":"new-android-malware-masquerades-as-netflix-to-hack-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/new-android-malware-masquerades-as-netflix-to-hack-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"New Android malware masquerades as Netflix to hack WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers at Check Point Research recently discovered new malware on Google Play called FlixOnline, which masquerades as a free Netflix app.\u00a0But in fact, it is intended for something else, namely to track user notifications in WhatsApp and send automatic replies to incoming messages using text from the server from which the application is remotely controlled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The malware can spread through users&#8217; WhatsApp messages with the following content:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGet 2 months of Netflix Premium for free anywhere in the world for 60 days.\u00a0You can get it here &#8230; &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When a user downloads an application to their device and grants it the appropriate permissions, it becomes active.\u00a0Thus, the program allows cybercriminals to carry out phishing attacks, spread false information through private messages and in WhatsApp groups, steal logins, passwords and other user data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pasted-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128402 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pasted-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pasted-12.jpg 614w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pasted-12-260x210.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pasted-12-500x405.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check Point Research has notified Google of the malicious application and provided data from its research.\u00a0It was removed from Google Play shortly thereafter.\u00a0FlixOnline was downloaded approximately 500 times in two months.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers note that this malware is distinguished by new methods of distribution and manipulation, which, unfortunately, will appear in other applications as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers at Check Point Research recently discovered new malware on Google Play called FlixOnline, which masquerades as a free Netflix app.\u00a0But in fact, it is intended for something else, namely to track user notifications in WhatsApp and send automatic replies to incoming messages using text from the server from which the application is remotely [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/new-android-malware-masquerades-as-netflix-to-hack-whatsapp\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":128404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-128401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}