However, users often do it anyway because they see the added functionality as worth the risk. Since these tweaked social media apps are unofficial, they are not available on the official Google and Apple mobile app stores, so users who want them must download them from unofficial sources, a practice that security experts have warned for a long time that it is especially risky. WhatsApp mods are basically unofficial tweaked versions of the social media app that promote features and functionality, like extra privacy, custom backgrounds, and bulk messaging, that the official version doesn’t have. Kaspersky researchers recently detected the threat and identified the Trojan as Triada, a malware tool they observed last year being similarly distributed via another malicious version of YoWhatsApp. Users who download the app risk having their WhatsApp account data stolen and signing up for paid subscriptions they didn’t want or even knew about. Security researchers have detected a threat actor distributing a data-stealing mobile Trojan via a counterfeit version of YoWhatsApp, a relatively widely used modified version of the WhatsApp messaging app.
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