{"id":222883,"date":"2025-10-04T04:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/researchers-warn-of-self-spreading-whatsapp-malware-named-sorvepotel"},"modified":"2025-10-04T04:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:20:59","slug":"researchers-warn-of-self-spreading-whatsapp-malware-named-sorvepotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/researchers-warn-of-self-spreading-whatsapp-malware-named-sorvepotel","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Warn of Self-Spreading WhatsApp Malware Named SORVEPOTEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-warn-of-self-spreading-whatsapp-malware-named-sorvepotel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp malware SORVEPOTEL infects 477 systems in Brazil, spreading via phishing ZIP files and spamming contacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp malware SORVEPOTEL infects 477 systems in Brazil, spreading via phishing ZIP files and spamming contacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222883","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}