Quick Heal Warns of Evolving WhatsApp Malware Campaign
Quick Heal Technologies Limited, a global provider of cybersecurity solutions, today issued a warning on an ongoing WhatsApp-based malware campaign targeting finance teams, senior executives, chartered accountants and individual business users. The campaign is spreading through compromised WhatsApp accounts and is evolving rapidly, with attackers adopting new file formats and evasion methods to bypass security controls and establish persistent access to victims’ devices.
Investigation conducted by the company’s researchers at Seqrite Labs, India’s largest malware analysis facility, shows that the campaign relies on trust rather than unsolicited messages from unknown numbers. Once a WhatsApp account is compromised, attackers use it to forward malicious files to the account holder’s existing contacts. Because the messages appear to come from a known colleague, client, friend or business associate, recipients may be more likely to open the attachment without independently verifying it.
The attackers are using finance- and compliance-themed filenames to create urgency and...
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