{"id":8612,"date":"2025-11-21T06:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/whatsapp-compromise-leads-to-astaroth-deployment\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:03:26","slug":"whatsapp-compromise-leads-to-astaroth-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/whatsapp-compromise-leads-to-astaroth-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp compromise leads to Astaroth deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    WhatsApp compromise leads to Astaroth deployment<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Another campaign targeting WhatsApp users in Brazil spreads like a worm and employs multiple payloads for credential theft, session hijacking, and persistence<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Mindi McDowell<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/2025\/11\/20\/whatsapp-compromise-leads-to-astaroth-deployment\/\">Go to sophos<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp compromise leads to Astaroth deployment Another campaign targeting WhatsApp users in Brazil spreads like a worm and employs multiple payloads for credential theft, session hijacking, and persistence Mindi McDowell Go to sophos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066,1497,106,2067,1916,58,110,460,1863],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-8612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astaroth","category-brazil","category-featured","category-guildma","category-infostealer","category-sophos","category-threat-research","category-whatsapp","category-worm","tag-sophos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612"}],"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=8612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}