An email about a WhatsApp voicemail message could ruin your operating system

Watch out for the email that will alert you about you missing a voice message on your WhatsApp. It contains a website link, which is infected by a malware. An email has been floating around, which informs the victim that they have missed a message from WhatsApp and it is a voicemail message.

Those who have no idea about the features of WhatsApp are potential victims and fall prey to the hacker’s email. The email informs them that they have received a WhatsApp voicemail message and a link in the email will take them to the message. The email states that the message has come from ‘WhatsApp Reminder’ with a misspelled name as ‘Whats AppReminder’ and a subject line ‘Missed Voice mail – with a time stamp’. The email address is identified as ‘cheung3_16@excite.co.uk’

Once you open the email, you will be informed that you had received a voice message and a small link will be provided to help you view the message. On clicking on the ‘autoplay’ link, you will be taken to website ‘http://chitraprakashan.com/wp-content/plugins/nubia.php’ which then redirects you again to ‘http://homesupplementsale.ru’ a pharmacy website which has an active malware waiting to pounce into your operating system. On checking the website, AVG detected the potential threat with the malware active on it for almost a week.

In order to be safe, we recommend that you do not entertain these emails as WhatsApp has no voicemail alerting system and most importantly, WhatsApp does not send users any personal emails. You should ensure that your system is protected by a good antivirus, which will detect the malware on the website before opening it and block it immediately.