{"id":140034,"date":"2022-05-31T23:22:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T04:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/this-whatsapp-scam-lets-hackers-take-control-of-your-account-with-one-phone-call"},"modified":"2022-05-31T23:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T04:22:27","slug":"this-whatsapp-scam-lets-hackers-take-control-of-your-account-with-one-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/this-whatsapp-scam-lets-hackers-take-control-of-your-account-with-one-phone-call","title":{"rendered":"This WhatsApp Scam Lets Hackers Take Control of Your Account with One Phone Call!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-whatsapp-scam-lets-hackers-take-control-of-your-account-with-one-phone-call.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging platforms in the world with over 2 billion users. Thanks to its massive user base, it has also become a breeding ground for scammers and hackers involved in malicious activities. Now, according to a recent report, a WhatsApp scam that enables an attacker to take control of a user\u2019s WhatsApp account is currently in operation. Check out the details below right now!<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent report by <em>Gizchina<\/em>, citing cybersecurity firm CloudSEK, a new scam currently targeting random WhatsApp users lets an attacker completely take control of their WhatsApp account with only a phone call. Once an attacker takes hold of a WhatsApp account,<strong> they can demand money from the user\u2019s WhatsApp contacts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The new scam was recently discovered by Rahul Sasi, who is the founder and CEO of CloudSEK. According to him, the primary objective of the hacker is to<strong> randomly call an unsuspecting WhatsApp user and try to convince them to call a specific number<\/strong>. If a user, unfortunately, dials the number as instructed by the attacker, they will be logged out of their WhatsApp account and the hacker will be able to take control of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging platforms in the world with over 2 billion users. Thanks to its massive user base, it has also become a breeding ground for scammers and hackers involved in malicious activities. Now, according to a recent report, a WhatsApp scam that enables an attacker to take control of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}