“Enjoy Tiktok Videos and also make Create Videos again. Now TikTok is only Available in (TikTok pro) So Download from below,” the message reads which is followed by a link to download the TikTok Pro APK file.Several Twitter users too have got similar messages on their smartphones.Once users download this, they see an app with an icon resembling the original TikTok app. The app then asks them for various permissions such as camera and mic among others. However, once these permissions are granted, the app doesn’t do anything. It just stays on the phone.As it goes, the app isn’t available on the Google Play Store and it cannot be downloaded from anywhere else. This coupled with the fact that TikTok hasn’t launched any such app indicates that malicious actors are using this opportunity for tricking innocent TikTok users into downloading a malicious app.It is worth noting that the report comes shortly after the French cyber security firm Evina said that 25 malicious apps, which had been downloaded 2.34 million times, on the Google Play Store stole Facebook credentials of Android users. You can check the entire list of apps here.Dear sir @hydcitypolice @CYBTRAFFIC @cpcybd
— Purushotham gowd (@GowdPurushotham) July 4, 2020
Some of my friends got some notifications from online about tiktok pro app, in that there is an URL link once we click on that URL that message has been automatically forwarded to all of our phone contact. Kindly find the attachments. pic.twitter.com/nsrNh9tuOs