WhatsApp just caught an Italian spyware firm building a fake version of its app for iPhones

The Next Web
By Alina Maria StanApr 1, 2026, 5:06 pm104 pts
WhatsApp has notified approximately 200 users, primarily in Italy, that they were tricked into installing a counterfeit version of the messaging app that was actually government spyware. The fake application was built by SIO, an Italian surveillance technology company that develops spyware for law enforcement…

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