{"id":1017601,"date":"2026-06-30T07:31:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017601"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:06:11","slug":"certin-warns-against-malware-campaign-spreading-through-whatsapp-web-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/30\/certin-warns-against-malware-campaign-spreading-through-whatsapp-web-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CertIn warns against malware campaign spreading through WhatsApp web"},"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<p>&#8220;It has been observed that a large-scale malware distribution campaign is targeting WhatsApp Desktop and WhatsApp Web users.<\/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. &#8220;It has been observed that a large-scale malware distribution campaign is targeting WhatsApp Desktop and WhatsApp Web users.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017601","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=1017601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017613,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017601\/revisions\/1017613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}