Officially the most dangerous Android applications: WhatsApp in first place, followed by Telegram and Viber

Cybercriminals are increasingly using correspondence applications to defraud users, and they are also very popular in Serbia.

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It is safe to say that the popular messaging application has completely replaced the use of text messages.

Such applications are much more flexible, they do not consume your credit, but you use the Internet to exchange messages, and through them you can make video and audio calls, but very some.

We have written about such applications countless times, we have even compiled a list that shows you all of them. personal data Users are collecting, and now new research has revealed just how dangerous messaging apps can be for Android users. As their popularity grows, so does the number Phishing Attacks targeting users of those applications.

What is Phishing?

Phishing is a cyber attack that mainly uses social engineering techniques with the aim of defrauding the victims and is mostly spreading. Distributes via email, prompting users to click on malicious links, through which their personal data will be stolen.

company specialist Kaspersky turns out they are Android Messaging applications are extremely popular with cybercriminals. from all Phishing attack on Android correspondence forum in the period from December 2020 to May 2021, WhatsApp is “led“All other applications detected attacks, with 89.6% of the techrepublic.

Correspondence applications are becoming more popular than social networks when it comes to communication, and this trend will continue for years to come. So it’s no surprise that they are cyber criminals Increasing interest in such platforms, a Tatiana Shcherbakova That company shows that many messaging applications have options where it’s easy enough for cybercriminals to commit. Phishing Attack.

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Officially the most dangerous Android applications: WhatsApp in first place, followed by Telegram and Viber

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As we mentioned, WhatsApp The infamous winner in this category is Wire at 5.6%, viber 4.7% and . with google hangouts less than one percent. Users from Russia, Brazil and India are the most common targets Phishing Attack. During the research, more than 90,000 such attacks were recorded, and due to WhatsApp The first can be found in the fact that this application has the most users.

An interesting fact is that Wire had a uniform geographic distribution Phishing attack as WhatsApp, while such efforts come most from Russia when it comes to viber.