Although malware has been the focus of the last three days with the WannaCry attack on more than 200,000 users in 150 countries, things seem to continue to worsen as new phishing malware has begun spreading over the network Promising what is a new functionality of WhatsApp in which you can customize the application with the colors you prefer and for free.
It is not the first time, nor will it be the last one to see this type of deception, but surprisingly it seems that people continue to fall into this type of traps. But even on this occasion it may be more complicated to detect because the web domain from which we get the information is шhaтsaрр.com, so that at first sight does not generate any kind of suspicion.
And is that once you enter the site, you’ll be on a minimalist and colorful page that says “New Colors for WhatsApp. Now you can change your WhatsApp and leave it with your favorite color! “. The difference between the official page and this one is that the one containing phishing is in Cyrillic alphabet (based on the Greek alphabet with characters of the glagolitic alphabet), hence the “w” and “t” look very similar to the Latin alphabet , Although in reality they are different. The key is to know that all secure web pages begin with https (Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol).
If you still get in the malware and press the “Activate Now” option, it will tell you that this new feature is only available for the desktop version of WhatsApp, so you will have to install an extension available for Google Chrome that will activate the Black WhatsApp theme, whether or not you agree with the color.
Once you install the extension for Chrome then you give access to BlackWhats, developer of this extension to access your chats and contacts within WhatsApp, so it is very important that you know that everything that entails a download and installation of files of sites Suspicious webs are usually phishing attacks to steal and impersonate your digital identity.
At this time, Google has dropped the extension of Chrome, however, it is common that many of the hackers try to take advantage of the innocence of users with misleading advertising that forces users to download and install files.
And the problem is that it is not always extensions that companies like Google or Microsoft can eliminate quickly, but programs that are often difficult to eliminate for the average user, forcing it to lose all its files with a factory restore Forced
