WhatsApp, one of the world's most popular privacy-oriented messengers, has suddenly disappeared from Google Play — and nobody knows why.

If you downloaded a version of the messaging app WhatsApp for Android from the Google Play Store last week, you may not have gotten the real thing. Diabolically clever cybercriminals posted a very ...

A fake version of the Android WhatsApp app was downloaded a million times from the Google Play Store before users discovered the fraud, and Google removed it. Google appears not to have done ...

WhatsApp vanished from the Google Play store on Friday morning. The app then reappeared just over an hour and a half later. It's unclear at this stage why it disappeared — it may be the result ...

Redditors on Friday discovered that a fake WhatsApp program available in Google Play had been downloaded more than 1 million times before Google took it down. The app, officially known as Update ...

Status Ads: Borrowing from Instagram’s approach, WhatsApp now displays sponsored posts between regular status updates. Marked as “Sponsored,” these quick clips are targeted at expanding reach for ...

Google has removed a phony WhatsApp download from Google Play and suspended the developer’s account, but not before the ad-spewing app was downloaded more than one million times.

Last week, an official-looking version of the popular WhatsApp messaging application for Android appeared on the Google Play Store, and more than one million users were tricked into downloading ...

Considering that WhatsApp claims over 1 billion daily active users, it’s no real surprise that the app has reached that download figure on the Google Play Store. It’s worth noting that this ...

Google just can't keep scammers out of the Play store. More than one million people downloaded a fake WhatsApp application last week, but that was just the tip of a dirty iceberg, according to ...

Iran restores access to WhatsApp and Google Play after they were banned amid protests A man uses his smartphone while riding the subway in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024.

While the bans on WhatsApp and Google Play were lifted by the council, other popular social media platforms including Facebook, X, Telegram, and YouTube remain blocked in Iran.