Worrying WhatsApp attack can steal messages and even accounts - here's how to stay safe from "poisoned" attack

The malicious fork, named ‘lotusbail’ has all the same functionality as the legitimate project, but it also steals WhatsApp authentication tokens and session keys. Furthermore, it intercepts and ...
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WhatsApp API worked exactly as promised, and stole everything

Malicious npm package posing as a WhatsApp Web API library operated for months as a functional dependency while stealing ...
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Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts

And it's especially dangerous because the code works A malicious npm package with more than 56,000 downloads masquerades as a working WhatsApp Web API library, and then it steals messages, harvests ...

Malicious npm package steals WhatsApp accounts and messages

A malicious package in the Node Package Manager (NPM) registry poses as a legitimate WhatsApp Web API library to steal ...