Instagram Fake Version Attack Android Smartphone

Many applications in Google Play Market, now being targeted by malware authors. After Angry BirdsSpace, now turn to the application Instagram. Instagram fake version has been detected by Sophos security agencies on the Russian site. Malware is dubbed the "André / Boxer-F".

Sophos warns, "If you download the application from this site, not from android official marketplace such as Google's Play, then you risk infecting your Smartphone."

Google launched Android in Google Play Market Instagram for about two weeks ago. Since then, more than five million downloads have been made. In the same week, Facebook bought with employees Instagram 13 people, a value of U.S. $ 1 Billion.

Instagram Infected

"The news has raised acquisition of Facebook and that's when the bad guys use it," said Sophos. Sophos senior technology consultant, Graham Cluley, said, "We have seen a number of rogue applications on the Android platform disguised as an official program. Example is Angry Birds Space. Instagram Fake Version written to provide money for malware makers, by sending a premium SMS message."

Sophos says it has found a number of identical photographs of people suspected of making Instagram Fake Version. The man has become internet phenomenon after his picture was widely circulated on Russian Internet forums, but "it is only a snapshot of marriage in Moscow," said Sophos. Trying to find him, says Sophos, similar to a hacker looking for Anonymous.

The only explanation I can think of why the numbers including SOHOs many times a file is to change the file fingerprints with the hopes of anti-virus scanners can be deceived so that it does not recognize the malicious packet.

However, not all users can be fooled by this fake application. For according to Sophos laboratory tests, the application of the Instagram Fake Version failed to find the right network operator when sending SMS messages background to make money for creators. Therefore, you should be more careful again.

Instagram Fake Version Attack Android Smartphone 2012-04-22T08:35:00+07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Dzukronus