{"id":3959,"date":"2016-05-26T15:55:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T10:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2016-06-20T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T05:32:19","slug":"whatsapp-gold-doesnt-exist-its-a-scam-that-spreads-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/whatsapp-gold-doesnt-exist-its-a-scam-that-spreads-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp Gold doesn\u2019t exist, it\u2019s a scam that spreads malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp users are once again targeted by malware peddlers, via messages that offer WhatsApp Gold, supposedly an enhanced version of the popular messaging app previously used only by \u201cbig celebrities.\u201d The alarm was raised by Action Fraud, the UK\u2019s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, but according to Tech Worm, users from India, Pakistan and Brazil have also been receiving the message. The website to which the victims are directed has been taken down. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2016\/05\/25\/whatsapp-gold-malware\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp users are once again targeted by malware peddlers, via messages that offer WhatsApp Gold, supposedly an enhanced version of the popular messaging app previously used only by \u201cbig celebrities.\u201d The alarm was raised by Action Fraud, the UK\u2019s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, but according to Tech Worm, users from India, Pakistan &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/whatsapp-gold-doesnt-exist-its-a-scam-that-spreads-malware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WhatsApp Gold doesn\u2019t exist, it\u2019s a scam that spreads malware&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itsec","category-frauds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-11R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4045,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions\/4045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}