{"id":9407,"date":"2025-12-23T07:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/fake-whatsapp-api-package-on-npm-steals-html\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:03:27","slug":"fake-whatsapp-api-package-on-npm-steals-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/fake-whatsapp-api-package-on-npm-steals-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake WhatsApp API Package on npm Steals Messages, Contacts, and Login Tokens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fake WhatsApp API Package on npm Steals Messages, Contacts, and Login Tokens
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malicious package on the npm repository that works as a fully functional WhatsApp API, but also contains the ability to intercept every message and link the attacker’s device to a victim’s WhatsApp account.
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Fake WhatsApp API Package on npm Steals Messages, Contacts, and Login Tokens Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malicious package on the npm repository that works as a fully functional WhatsApp API, but also contains the ability to intercept every message and link the attacker’s device to a victim’s WhatsApp account. The package, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-9407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407"}],"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=9407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}