A malicious package in the Node Package Manager (NPM) registry poses as a legitimate WhatsApp Web API library to steal ...

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Malicious npm package posing as a WhatsApp Web API library operated for months as a functional dependency while stealing ...

The lotusbail NPM package steals WhatsApp credentials, messages, and contacts, and provides persistent access to the victims’ accounts.

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The malicious fork, named ‘lotusbail’ has all the same functionality as the legitimate project, but it also steals WhatsApp authentication tokens and session keys. Furthermore, it intercepts and ...

After countless ads and several years of Google’s pleading, RCS is an integral part of Apple’s Messages app. It wasn’t always that way, as I jumped on the experience almost immediately, activating it ...

This concept isn’t new—in fact, it is the essence of representational state transfer (REST). Instead of converting to a ...