WhatsApp is the largest messaging platform in the world, and you already know that more than 2 billion people use it every day, but unfortunately it is not bypassed by the serious problems that affect these platforms. More precisely, the WhatsApp application is targeted by a new very serious problem that is related to a new type of malware that is currently being distributed in Spain and that is causing a lot of trouble for those who are affected by it.
WhatsApp has such a serious problem here that the authorities in Spain have started to alert people about the fact that they should not trust the messages that come to them from strangers. In this situation, it seems that various attackers are using the WhatsApp identity to send messages to people as if they came from the messaging platform, tricking them into downloading malware from an unknown source.
WhatsApp: ALERT with a Danger for Millions of Phones
WhatsApp does not send people messages of this kind, but attackers give people various reasons to download malware archives to their own phones, once accessed infecting devices. The situation is one that is not exactly new, WhatsApp being affected by problems of this kind in the spring, but now it seems that they have returned in the present, so everyone should be on the alert, including those who use the platform from another country .
WhatsApp usually has malware attacks initiated in a certain country and continued in others, so you don't have to rely on the fact that the problems stay where they first appeared. It is not excluded that this attack will be spread beyond Spain by hackers, and this is because in general they seek to affect as many WhatsApp users as possible, and success is guaranteed in many cases, unfortunately for us.
WhatsApp has nothing to do in such situations, and that's because the users are the ones who have to protect themselves all the time against this type of problems before they become even more serious.