WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and Facebook Messenger users have been put on high alert as the latest threat to their chat data has emerged in the form of “Safe Chat” — a fake instant messaging app.
The impostor app is convincingly designed but has no intention of allowing peer-to-peer communication — instead, the app’s primary goal is to spread the “CoverIm” malware, previously weaponized across the murky gizzards of the Google Play Store by APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) group ‘DoNot’.
