{"id":1001254,"date":"2026-04-04T11:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001254"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:06:31","slug":"whatsapp-has-an-alert-on-fake-whatsapp-app-that-some-iphone-users-in-italy-downloaded-warns-that-it-is-a-spying-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/whatsapp-has-an-alert-on-fake-whatsapp-app-that-some-iphone-users-in-italy-downloaded-warns-that-it-is-a-spying-app\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp has an alert on fake WhatsApp app that some iPhone users in Italy downloaded; warns that it is a spying app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has issued a warning about a fake version of its app designed to conduct surveillance. According to a report by the news agency Reuters, the warning from the Meta-owned messaging app comes after a few hundred iPhone users in Italy were tricked into downloading a fake WhatsApp app.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, WhatsApp said the campaign involved a malicious app that impersonated the messaging app and was used to spy on targeted individuals. The company indicated that the incident affected a limited number of users, primarily in Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has issued a warning about a fake version of its app designed to conduct surveillance. According to a report by the news agency Reuters, the warning from the Meta-owned messaging app comes after a few hundred iPhone users in Italy were tricked into downloading a fake WhatsApp app. According to the report, WhatsApp said the campaign involved a malicious app that impersonated the messaging app and was used to spy on targeted individuals. The company indicated that the incident affected a limited number of users, primarily in Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}