| Think twice before downloading Instagram! It's because, an IT firm, Sophos, has discovered fake versions of the popular photo sharing app and Angry Birds online. It has detected malware, which is being distributed on a Russian website pretending to be an official Instagram website, as Andr/Boxer-F. Google Play, the Android market place is the official site for any such downloads. But, if the Android users download the app from an unapproved source, they may get their devices severely effected by the malware. |
| Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant, Sophos, said, "Android malware is becoming a bigger and bigger problem. Just last week, we saw a bogus edition of the Angry Birds Space game and it's quite likely that whoever is behind this latest malware are also using the names and images of other popular smartphone apps as bait." "Infected Androids are now effectively part of a botnet, under the control of malicious hackers. Android users need to be extremely careful when downloading applications from sites, especially when they're not official Android markets," he added. |
"With help from Internet users, we were able to identify that the image comes from a Moscow wedding photograph, where this one person was dressed a lot more casually than other guests. The man's photo became widespread on Russian Internet forums, making him something of a celebrity. There's no reason to believe, however, that he has anything to do with the Android malware attack," said Cluely.
Instagram was recently acquired by the social networking website, Facebook, for a whopping $1 billion. But, cybercriminals don't seem to be at rest and they will keep faking people to earn handsome amount of money.
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