Downloading this popular WhatsApp version may get your phone ‘hacked’

If you are someone who loves to use a modified WhatsApp app or a WhatsApp mod then stay away from version 16.80.0 of FMWhatsApp. As per cybersecurity form Kaspersky, this version of FMWhatsApp comes with a third-party advertisement module that has an in-built Trojan. “Our mobile antivirus solution detects this malware as Trojan.AndroidOS.Triada.ef,” said Kaspersky.

Users tend to download a third-party modified version of WhatsApp to get access to features that are not available on the official app like the ability to read deleted messages, self-destruct messages, etc. While WhatsApp discourages users from doing so and also takes down certain mods, users tend to find APK files of new ones online.