Android app-malware and anti piracy. App for Android a false appearance that steals sensitive data the user sends SMS and offensive to his contacts.
Several attacks on various sites for Android, especially in North America, an application called Android. Walkinwat, who claims to be a lite version of the app and free Text and Walk, which facilitates the sending of SMS while walking by projecting the background of the text that is echoed by the rear camera of the device.
In reality the application pirate, not present in any Android Market, is nothing but a malware that steals user sensitive data (such as name, phone number, IMEI, etc.). and sends them to a remote server, but Here begin the oddities associated with this application. In fact it is a means of malware, but on the malware “anti piracy”. In fact, once you install it sends SMS to all contacts of that report, vulgar and offensive manner, the fact that you have installed the software is not genuine. In addition, when it ends in a stalemate the process, a message warning the user, in essence, what has happened and suggests, ironically, to control their bills and to purchase the original app from the Market .
The group has analyzed the Symantec software and verified that the process of data theft happens in a subroutine that normally deals with verifying the reliability of the product, while Avast has individiual the address that sends data, which seems to be Incorporate Apps tied to the company, the original author of the app, which has declared itself out of it.
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