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 ...

In a bizarre incident, Facebook-owned WhatsApp seemed to have disappeared from the Google Play Store, some users complained on Friday. "Users are now reporting that the Facebook-owned instant chat ...

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 ...

It’s not exactly something the average user can check while downloading apps, but it also fooled Google Play. Reddit user megared17 discovered and took a screenshot of the subtle difference. Real ...

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 ...

Update 12:15 UTC, October 11: A WhatsApp spokesperson contacted TNW to let us know the app is now back up on the Play Store. Unfortunately, the reason for the short absence remains unclear. Well ...

Third-party messaging app WhatsApp is now only the second non-Google app to do so, having amassed the figure over a decade on Android and the Play Store. Given the popularity of WhatsApp around ...

WhatsApp hasn't completely disappeared from the Google Play Store and neither did Google blacklist the app, the report added. Catch all the Technology News and Updates on Live Mint.

And these really are the most “popular” apps. The six apps highlighted in red include three from Meta (WhatsApp, WhatsApp Business and Facebook), Google’s own Messages app, MyJio and Truecaller.