{"id":67290,"date":"2021-01-12T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=220553"},"modified":"2021-01-12T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T07:05:00","slug":"chinese-hackers-luring-indian-whatsapp-into-part-time-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2021\/01\/12\/chinese-hackers-luring-indian-whatsapp-into-part-time-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese hackers luring Indian WhatsApp into 'part-time' jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Share Read Article<br \/>\nIn fresh trouble for WhatsApp, which is facing backlash over its upcoming user data policy in India, New Delhi-based think-tank Cyberpeace Foundation said on Monday that China-based hackers are targeting WhatsApp users in the country with the promise of \u2018part-time\u2019 jobs.<br \/>\nSuch proliferating messages on WhatsApp, which come with attached links, claim that one can earn Rs 200 to Rs 3,000 in a day in 10 to 30 minutes.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are multiple links that redirect to a common URL and each link uses different numbers to send a message,\u201d the foundation said in a statement.<br \/>\n\u201cIt can be observed that the same outgoing link is used for all the links with variation in the numbers. The parameter in the links indicates that they can be redirected to WhatsApp in all regions and in languages other than English,\u201d said the report.<br \/>\nThe CyberPeace Foundation along with experts from Autobot Infosec Private Ltd has launched an independent investigation into the matter.<br \/>\n\u201cIn all the links, the same redirection and outgoing sources were generated. However, in one link, a different URL was found and one new IP address that belongs to one of China\u2019s hosting company Alibaba Cloud,\u201d the report said.<br \/>\nWhen the URL is manipulated, an error code is displayed in Chinese language, the report said, adding that the domain names found during the investigation seem to have been registered in China.<br \/>\n\u201cThe IP address of the link is 47.75.111.165 and it can be traced to Alibaba Cloud, the city Hong Kong and the country China,\u201d it further claimed.<br \/>\nThe news comes at a time when WhatsApp is asking users to either give their consent to sharing data with Facebook or lose their accounts after February 8, triggering a heated debate globally, including in India.<br \/>\n\u2013IANS Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share Read Article<br \/>\nIn fresh trouble for WhatsApp, which is facing backlash over its upcoming user data policy in India, New Delhi-based think-tank Cyberpeace Foundation said on Monday that China-based hackers are targeting WhatsApp users in the countr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,46,144,872,339,931,194,493,465],"tags":[6601,3472,1845,3450,10325,10155],"class_list":["post-67290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-alibaba","category-china","category-hacker","category-hong-kong","category-india","category-news-chinese-law","category-online-shopping","category-social-media","tag-china-technology","tag-chinese","tag-facebook","tag-indian","tag-new-delhi","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67291,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67290\/revisions\/67291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}