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WHATSAPP users have been warned against a dangerous new malware campaign, which hopes to trick messenger users into installing an executable file.</div>
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Cybercriminals circulating malware have set their sights on WhatsApp users, researchers have discovered.</div>
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The malware is being distributed in emails, which look as if they have been sent from an official WhatsApp account, researchers at Comodo Labs have revealed.</div>
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Criminals hope to trick WhatsApp users into opening the email – and downloading the attached virus.</div>
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Messages from the criminals contain suggestive subject lines including, "you have obtained a voice notification", "an audio memo was missed", "a brief audio recording has been delivered" and "a short vocal recording was obtained".</div>
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Some WhatsApp users are being sent other notifications too, including a fake notification about a new video note, Comodo has confirmed.</div>
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None of these emails originate from a WhatsApp email address – but are "disguised with an umbrella branding", the security firm added.</div>
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Each of these malicious messages contains a compressed ZIP file, which will unleash the hidden malware inside.</div>
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The malware usually replicates itself into different system folders, adding itself into an auto-run in the computer’s registry.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An example of the one of the false WhatsApp emails</td></tr>
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"Cybercriminals are becoming more and more like marketers – trying to use creative subject lines to have unsuspecting emails be clicked and opened to spread malware," said Fatih Orhan, Director of Technology for Comodo and the Comodo Antispam Labs.</div>
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"As a company, Comodo is working diligently in creating innovative technology solutions that stay a step ahead of the cybercriminals, protect and secure endpoints, and keep enterprises and IT environments safe."</div>
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WhatsApp is currently <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/whatsapp-is-most-popular-messenger-in.html">the most popular cross-platform messaging app</a> with more than 900 million users worldwide.</div>
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The <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/whatsapp-not-working-facebook-owned-app.html">Facebook-owned service crashed on New Years Eve</a>, leaving millions of well-wishers <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/whatsapp-not-working-facebook-owned-app.html">unable to message friends and family at the start of the new year</a>.</div>
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The subscription-based messenger allows users to send text, video and audio messages around the world over an internet connection.</div>
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The messenger, which is now offered on a yearly subscription plan of 69p, also offers Voice over IP calling, group chats and more.</div>
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WhatsApp bought by Facebook for an eye-watering $19billion last year.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facebook is in control of the 2 most popular mobile messaging apps, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger </td></tr>
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Facebook also owns the second most successful mobile messaging app – its own Facebook Messenger.</div>
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The standalone cross-platform chat app currently has some 700million monthly users.</div>
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Facebook recently announced that for the first time ever – one billion people accessed Facebook on the same day.</div>
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That works out at a staggering one in every seven people on Earth logging in and using the US social service.</div>
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