Sophos, an IT security and data protection company, has reported that Android users are being taken in by fake, malware versions of Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app.
Instagram arrived on Android in the beginning of April (and has since been acquired by Facebook for a massive $1bn). So far, it has been downloaded nearly 400,000 times from the Google Play Store.
The fake versions of the Instagram Android app are found at a variety of unapproved sources, and are designed to earn money from unsuspecting users, playing on the app’s popularity, sending SMSes to premium rate numbers that earn their creators revenue.
The most widely spread of these fake Instagram apps, are the Andr/Boxer-F variants, distributed on a Russian website purporting to be an official Instagram site.
In the meanwhile, last week, Sophos also reported that malware versions of Angry Birds Space were also being found online, one of many recent popular apps to be preyed on by malicious hackers.
Source : ThinkDigit
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