{"id":1017421,"date":"2026-06-29T08:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017421"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:39:49","slug":"cybersecurity-watchdog-certin-says-criminals-could-get-unauthorised-access-through-whatsapp-malware-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/29\/cybersecurity-watchdog-certin-says-criminals-could-get-unauthorised-access-through-whatsapp-malware-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity watchdog CertIn says criminals could get unauthorised access through WhatsApp malware campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp web and desktop users are being targeted by a large-scale malware distribution campaign that could give criminals unauthorised access and compromise their devices, national cybersecurity watchdog CertIn said in a note. <\/p>\n<p>The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team has warned WhatsApp web and desktop users to be cautious of any attachments, even if they come from a friend, colleague or family member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp web and desktop users are being targeted by a large-scale malware distribution campaign that could give criminals unauthorised access and compromise their devices, national cybersecurity watchdog CertIn said in a note. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team has warned WhatsApp web and desktop users to be cautious of any attachments, even if they come from a friend, colleague or family member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017421","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017439,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017421\/revisions\/1017439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}