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  • A message circulating on WhatsApp invites Internet users to be wary of a file entitled "Argentina does it", which could hack phones.

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Watch out for this message circulating on WhatsApp.

He alerted users of the application to the upcoming sending of a video titled “Argentina is doing it”.

"Don't open [this file] and see it, it hacks your phone in ten seconds and it can't be stopped in any way," read this viral post *.

Recipients of the message are then encouraged to "pass the information on to [their] family and [their] friends."

The CNN news channel would also have informed of the danger, according to the content of this anonymous message.

No file of this type circulates.

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No malicious file called “Argentina is doing it” is circulating.

In Spain, where a similar message is also circulating, the police have warned that this text is "false".

Claudio Caraciollo, head of cybersecurity at ElevenPaths, the cybersecurity unit of telephone operator Telefonica Movistar, told our Argentinian colleagues from Chequeado that "the ten seconds [opening] make no sense" because " if an app automatically compromises a phone, it does so instantly ”.

CNN denial

CNN also denied having devoted a subject to this supposed file.

"This is false," detailed a spokesperson for the channel at the American site Snopes.

There is nothing on CNN platforms with this message.

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This is not the first time that messages warning that a phone will be hacked in ten seconds have circulated.

Similar messages were already circulating in January and 2018, as the Spanish fact-checkers in Maldita recall.

WhatsApp also warns against these fraudulent messages.

If “the content of the message includes indications for transferring the message”, as is the case here, extra vigilance must be taken.

In order to avoid security breaches, it is important to update the applications regularly on your phone.

Since April, WhatsApp has been limiting the number of transfers of viral messages, in order to fight against poisoning.

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