WhatsApp is one of the most popular and downloaded applications in the world, since millions of people can be connected with others, no matter where they are in the world, just by sending a message instantly .
But also for this reason, WhatsApp is usually an app highly persecuted by scammers, who dedicate themselves to make fake versions so that people will fall for them and download them easily.
WhatsApp Pink (pink) is a version of the popular messaging application that offers a new look to users who install it, but who By clicking on the link you share, you infect the cell phone to gain complete control.
The supposed premium or special versions of WhatsApp have been tempting users for years with modifications -as new it worked nes and another color for the interface- that are not present in the legitimate application, with the aim of deceiving them to obtain a profit in return.
In this sense, the researcher cybersecurity officer Rajshekhar Rajaharia has warned through his Twitter profile of a new threat: WhatsApp Pink. This scam is distributed through of messages within the chats, and ensures that it is a new look for the messaging app, in pink.
The message, also with a pink background, urges you to click on the button it includes. But if they do, users will get a virus, as the researcher has warned, and they will completely lose control of their phone.
In 2015 highlighted another malicious version, WhatsApp Blue, which promised to modify the interface color to adopt the which indicates its name, but instead issued questionnaires and subscribed victims to paid services.
Also a few years ago WhatsApp Plus, a modified version, attracted attention, unofficial, which extended the functions that the legitimate ‘app’ would offer. However, after Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp, the company began blocking accounts using third-party versions like this.