Security News > 2022 > October > WhatsApp goes after Chinese password scammers via US court
Unlike the email ecosystem, where anybody can email anybody, messaging and social media apps such as WhatsApp are based on closed groups.
The companies are Rockey Tech HK Ltd, Beijing Luokai Technology Co. Ltd, and Chitchat Technology Ltd. The brand names under which WhatsApp alleges they peddled fake apps and addons are HeyMods, Highlight Mobi, and HeyWhatsApp.
One of these apps was downloaded more than 1,000,000 times, say the plaintiffs, and a second app exceeded 100,000 downloads.
Apps from cybersecurity specialists help you detect and block a wide range of rogue websites and malicious apps, even if Google's Play Store lets them through.
Do you really need to change the WhatsApp colours? If the official app won't let you do so, why would you trust one that claims to have discovered a workaround? In particular, don't pay much, or even any, attention to the crowd-sourced ratings on app download sites, including Google Play itself.
There are many, many more apps that get rejected by Google because they clearly contain cybersecurity flaws, either due to programmers who were lazy, incompetent or both, or because the creators of the app were unreconstructed cybercriminals.
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