{"id":5982,"date":"2025-08-08T10:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/fake-whatsapp-developer-libraries-hide-destructive-data-wiping-code\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:03:52","slug":"fake-whatsapp-developer-libraries-hide-destructive-data-wiping-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/fake-whatsapp-developer-libraries-hide-destructive-data-wiping-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake WhatsApp developer libraries hide destructive data-wiping code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Fake WhatsApp developer libraries hide destructive data-wiping code<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Two malicious NPM packages posing as WhatsApp development tools have been discovered deploying destructive data-wiping\u00a0code that recursively deletes files on a developer&#8217;s computers. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fake-whatsapp-developer-libraries-hide-destructive-data-wiping-code\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake WhatsApp developer libraries hide destructive data-wiping code Two malicious NPM packages posing as WhatsApp development tools have been discovered deploying destructive data-wiping\u00a0code that recursively deletes files on a developer&#8217;s computers. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-5982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}