Android users who download a pirated re-create of the Walk as well as Text app are strolling smack into trouble.
The rogue app, called Android. Walkinwat, is a corrupted version of the legitimate Android Walk as well as Text app, the safety theater Symantec reported. Walk as well as Text, which tin live on constitute inward many third-party app stores inward North America as well as China, uses a smartphone’s photographic boob tube camera to present users what’s inward front end of them equally they’re walking as well as texting.
Once Walkinwat is downloaded, a dialogue box appears on the user’s telephone that, according to Symantec, “gives the appearance that the app is inward the procedure of existence compromised or cracked, when, inward fact, the app is gathering as well as attempting to post dorsum sensitive information (name, telephone number, IMEI information, etc.) to an external server.”
This is far from the showtime representative of a corrupted Android app that harvests user data; inward early on March, a rogue slice of software called DroidDream was constitute inward 58 apps, which were downloaded to a greater extent than than 200,000 times earlier existence removed from the Android App Market.
But Walkinwat adds a personal twist to the typical smartphone scam. It seems whoever orchestrated the bad app to bag your information has an anti-piracy agenda of his own.
While it’s installing, the Wakinwat app sends out a text message to everyone inward the victim’s contact listing that reads: “Hey, only downloaded a pirated App off the Internet, Walk as well as Text for Android. Im stupid as well as cheap, it costed solely 1 buck. Don’t bag similar I did!”
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 follow-up message reads, “We actually hope you lot learned something from this. Check your telephone bill;) Oh as well as don’t forget to purchase the App from the Market.”
Symantec said this is the showtime representative inward which a corrupted mobile application was used to scold people for piracy.
Submitted By Samad Khan (Con5tantine)
Once Walkinwat is downloaded, a dialogue box appears on the user’s telephone that, according to Symantec, “gives the appearance that the app is inward the procedure of existence compromised or cracked, when, inward fact, the app is gathering as well as attempting to post dorsum sensitive information (name, telephone number, IMEI information, etc.) to an external server.”
This is far from the showtime representative of a corrupted Android app that harvests user data; inward early on March, a rogue slice of software called DroidDream was constitute inward 58 apps, which were downloaded to a greater extent than than 200,000 times earlier existence removed from the Android App Market.
But Walkinwat adds a personal twist to the typical smartphone scam. It seems whoever orchestrated the bad app to bag your information has an anti-piracy agenda of his own.
While it’s installing, the Wakinwat app sends out a text message to everyone inward the victim’s contact listing that reads: “Hey, only downloaded a pirated App off the Internet, Walk as well as Text for Android. Im stupid as well as cheap, it costed solely 1 buck. Don’t bag similar I did!”
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 follow-up message reads, “We actually hope you lot learned something from this. Check your telephone bill;) Oh as well as don’t forget to purchase the App from the Market.”
Symantec said this is the showtime representative inward which a corrupted mobile application was used to scold people for piracy.
Submitted By Samad Khan (Con5tantine)
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