WhatsApp users have recently experienced a new form of scam that could hijack their accounts after a single phone call.
Aside from locking out your account, the hackers could also easily gain access to your contact list. This means that the remote attacker can peruse your private messages without you knowing.
WhatsApp Phone Call Scam
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This WhatsApp scam can lock you out of your account after answering a single phone call from an unknown recipient.
According to a report by Express, Rahul Sasi, the current CEO of CLOUDSEK, a risk assessment firm based in India, has shared some information about the dangerous WhatsApp scam on LinkedIn.
Obtaining a random WhatsApp contact number is possible through hacking. The threat actors take advantage of this process as they utilize a bit of social engineering in their operations.
Sasi mentioned that the victim would receive a call from an unknown caller, which in this case is the hacker. This person will convince the receiver to initiate a call with another number.
As of writing, the cybersecurity researchers have not yet discovered the mystery of the attackers behind the process of convincing their victims.
Like other malicious schemes, the attackers could potentially ask for a financial reward for the victim’s data. That’s most likely the case here. From there, this would force the user to follow all the instructions from the hackers.
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