20 April 2012

Fake Instagram app slings SMS Trojan onto Android gear


Virus lynchpins are distributing an Android Trojan under the guise of popular photo-sharing app Instagram.

The fake version of the Instagram Android app is being distributed via unapproved sources, rather than official sites such as the Google Play Android marketplace. The rogue app has been published on a Russian website purporting to be an official Instagram site, among others.
Once installed, the app will silently send SMS messages to premium rate services, doubtless earning its creators a tidy commission at the expense of fandroids in the process.

Cybercriminals are seeking to exploit the popularity of the Instagram app – which has millions of users around the world, prompting Facebook to pay an eye-watering $1bn for the firm behind the technology earlier this month.........

The Instagram Android Trojan represents the latest example in a growing number of viral threats to target the Android smartphone platform.........

Curiously, the malware contains a random number of identical photos of a man. The photo features a cropped image of a casually dressed witness from a Moscow wedding photo, an image that has become something of a phenomenon on Russian internet forums...........

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1 comment:

Angelina said...

May be android crashes the system and may be there is any cure for that.

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