Fake WhatsApp on Google Play Store: Malicious developers are known to use popular apps to spread malware. Google's official Play Store has proven to be a great breeding ground for these malicious apps.
Yesterday some users saw a fake version of the most popular WhatsApp Messaging app for Android in the official Google Play Store. This version is said to have downloaded more than a million users.
It was called Update WhatsApp Messenger, and it was uploaded by an app developer who used her name real υπηρεσία του WhatsAρρ, "WhatsApp Inc."
Yes he managed with a trick to use the same developer title that uses and the actual WhatsApp on Google Play.
How did he do that? Very simply with one character Unicode.
Ο κακόβουλος προγραμματιστής πρόσθεσε ένα χαρακτήρα Unicode μετά το όνομα του WhatsApp Inc., ο οποίος ήταν αόρατος για τους ανθρώπους. Ο υπολογιστής όμως μπορούσε να "δει" σε αυτό που βλέπουμε εμείς σαν WhatsApp Inc., τους εξής χαρακτήρες: WhatsApp + Inc% C2% A0.
This hidden character at the end of WhatsApp Inc. has tricked several Google Play Store users.
According Redditors, who discovered this fake app on Friday, the app was not a chat app, but promoted advertisements to its victims and encouraged them to download other applications as well.
Google naturally removed the fake application almost immediately from the official Play Store, but this incident once again marked the company's failure to detect a scam in its application platform, even after a million downloads.
Conclusion:
Do not believe announcements like this, because Google can look for ways to protect, but millions of others are looking for ways to bypass each security. You should be very careful with downloading applications not only from third-party stores but also from the official Google Play Store.
