Attention This Pretended WhatsApp app will steal your data, don’t forget to download

WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant messaging apps, which billions of people are used worldwide. Although FB -owned company adds many new features to platforms, but still users turn to mod apps to get some additional benefits. Let me tell you, modified apps modified by third-party developers, which can provide you some additional features. But these apps can prove to be a big threat to your privacy. One such app is FMWHatsApp, which can steal your personal data.

Cyber security firm Kaspersky has discovered a new Whatsapp Mod app, named FMWHATSAPP. This fake WhatsApp app works to deliver malware to the users’ devices. The security firm says it is Triada Trojan Malware, which steals data from users’ devices. As we mentioned, the mod apps are developed by third-party developers based on an original app. It is like a real app in appearance, but users get additional features.

Kaspersky’s report says that these modes apply advertisements filled with malware in the device and some of these advertisements are also those who keep running in the background without user’s knowledge. It receives access in the device in such a way that their data is stolen without the idea of users. FMWHatsApp also asks for permission from users to read SMS. With the access of SMS, the fake app steals the information present in the personal and extremely important messages of users. They obtain the user’s verification code and achieve premium subscriptions of many service.

Kaspersky has advised users to avoid such clone apps. Currently millions of Android and iOS apps have clone and mod apps, which can slow down your smartphone and more dangerous that these apps can steal your personal data. Many apps are able to achieve access to your letters. In such a situation, you only download the apps available in Google Play Games and Apple App Bind and read the review of those apps first and only then install them.