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Dec 22 2025 Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts

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And it's especially dangerous because the code works A malicious npm package with more than 56,000 downloads masquerades as a working WhatsApp Web API library, and then it steals messages, harvests credentials and contacts, and hijacks users' WhatsApp accounts.... [...]

Posted by Jessica Lyons on Mon 22 December 2025 in The Register.

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