From nakedsecurity.sophos.com
Last week we wrote about a WhatsApp hoax that was spreading widely, warning people to look out for a cybersecurity catastrophe that simply wasn’t going to happen.
That was known as the Martinelli/Dance of the Pope hoax, and it claimed that two dangerous videos are about to come out that will hack or wipe out your phone so it can’t be fixed.
This week, there’s another WhatsApp hoax that suddenly started spreading, apparently forwarded in good faith by lots of worried users: