The ‘Argentina Doing It’ video will hack your phones? To you …

Social media users are circulating a post which allegedly warns of “opening a video It will be received via WhatsApp, andHis name is Argentina, because it will penetrate the phone within 10 seconds, according to CNN. However, these allegations are unfounded. This post is a hoax, and there is no video called “Argentina (or India) is doing it.” CNN confirmed that it had not broadcast a similar report. FactCheck #

Al-Nahar was checked for you

The facts: A mobile post shared by pages and accounts (such as Here، Here, Here, Here…). According to the allegations (without interference or correction), “They will start distributing a video on WhatsApp showing how the Covid19 curve is flattening in Argentina. The file is called“ Argentina does it ”, do not open it or see it, it penetrates your phone in 10 seconds and cannot be stopped by any A form. Pass the information to your family and friends.
They also mentioned it on CNN. ” –

Also, it is shared by foreign accounts, especially in English (Here، Here…). –

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They are going to start circulating a video on WhatsApp that shows how the Covid19 curve is flattening in Argentina. The file is called “Argentina is doing it”, do not open it or see it, it hacks your phone in 10 seconds and it cannot be stopped in any way.

– ADIB (@Shun_Segai) September 21, 2020

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Audit:

– The search for the publication, using keywords, indicates that its circulation has intensified, especially as of July 2020 (Here، Here), To continue in the following months (Here، Here…), Before it is finally renewed. –

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Also, it turns out that the post is also spreading allegations that the video is labeled “India does it”, instead of Argentina (such as Here، Here، Here، Here…). –

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– Fact of the post –

Argentina or India?

Neither this nor that.

As a matter of fact, this dangerous video does not exist. First, a CNN spokesman confirmed Blair Caufield to the website Snopes The American health investigator said that “this post is wrong,” and “there is no similar report on CNN platforms.” –

Second, none of the users of the so-called WhatsApp video app has received the label “Argentina or India does it,” according to what was noted.

The site has moved Checked The Argentine health investigator said, “The unit did not receive any legitimate reports on a video like the one it was told about,” according to Horacio Azulin, the public prosecutor of the national unit specialized in prosecuting cybercrime in Argentina. –

Well, the site asked Checked Claudio Claudio Caracciolo of ElevenPaths, the cybersecurity unit of the Spanish telecom company Telefónica, confirmed, in turn, that “there is no security vulnerability in the WhatsApp application that indicates that the messaging process can be hacked due to a video clip”. He noted that “the ten seconds does not make sense,” because “if it breaks the phone application automatically, it does so immediately.” –

– Watsab –

According to the terms of security and privacy, and within the category “phishing”, defines an application واتساب He “could be a victim of a phishing scheme if you got a message via e-mail or via WhatsApp, and it meets one of the following specifications: When the sender claims to be affiliated with WhatsApp, when the message includes instructions to forward the message.
When the message claims that you can avoid negative consequences, such as suspending your WhatsApp account, if you forward the message. And when the message includes a prize or gift from WhatsApp or another person. ” –

If the post is about the alleged video “Argentina or India is doing it”, these specifications apply.

So the post is just a hoax, similar to previous hoaxes that have spread in recent years about “videos that arrive via WhatsApp and penetrate cell phones,” and An-Nahar has published an audit about it.

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