New threat on whatsapp, users, believing they are facing one of the many system updates or masked by new emoticons, have completed the operation. At this point, the malware began to show requests aimed at obtaining authorizations from the terminal administrator, repeating everything in a cyclical manner until the objective was reached.
Once the goal has been reached, it will invite you to confirm the credentials useful for renewing or extending the subscription to WhatsApp: if the data were entered, the consequences for credit cards would be well imaginable.
We remind you that whatsapp would never ask you for your credit card data, but would use paypal or google wallet for payment.
In some cases the only way to get rid of the malware is to hard reset the phone.
