{"id":283245,"date":"2026-06-28T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/malware-campaign-on-whatsapp-cybersecurity-watchdog-certin-says-criminals-could-get-unauthorised-access-through-whatsapp-malware-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T10:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:15:07","slug":"malware-campaign-on-whatsapp-cybersecurity-watchdog-certin-says-criminals-could-get-unauthorised-access-through-whatsapp-malware-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/malware-campaign-on-whatsapp-cybersecurity-watchdog-certin-says-criminals-could-get-unauthorised-access-through-whatsapp-malware-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Malware campaign on WhatsApp | Cybersecurity watchdog CertIn says criminals could get unauthorised access through WhatsApp malware campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/business\/cybersecurity-watchdog-certin-says-criminals-could-get-unauthorised-access-through-whatsapp-malware-campaign\/cid\/2167647\">Malware campaign on WhatsApp | Cybersecurity watchdog CertIn says criminals could get unauthorised access through WhatsApp malware campaign<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/business\/cybersecurity-watchdog-certin-says-criminals-could-get-unauthorised-access-through-whatsapp-malware-campaign\/cid\/2167647\">https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/business\/cybersecurity-watchdog-certin-says-criminals-could-get-unauthorised-access-through-whatsapp-malware-campaign\/cid\/2167647<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-28 09:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.telegraphindia.com\">www.telegraphindia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<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. The campaign distributes malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) files through direct messages on the platform,&#8221; CertIn said on June 25.<\/p>\n<p>                    &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/business\/cybersecurity-watchdog-certin-says-criminals-could-get-unauthorised-access-through-whatsapp-malware-campaign\/cid\/2167647\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malware campaign on WhatsApp | Cybersecurity watchdog CertIn says criminals could get unauthorised access through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.telegraphindia.com\/telegraph\/2026\/Jun\/1782652236_1777364709_whatsapp.gif","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-283245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283247,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283245\/revisions\/283247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}