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Kaspersky Lab alerts users a false and malicious application BlackBerry Messenger that infected users in Latin America. According to analysts of the company, the company announced that BlackBerry near future Android and iPhone users can also have the BBM for these operating systems. While this still does not happen, cybercriminals have endeavored to produce any number of false BBM applications. So far, these applications had been abusing the English-speaking users to find the application BBM Apps stores fell into the trap.

Yesterday, Kaspersky Lab analysts analyzed an application available in Latin America and found that indeed it was a fake application developer which has nothing to do with the company BlackBerry.

“Cybercriminals profit, stealing money from the victims directly from your available balance or through the network traffic. The latter is precisely the way it operates the BBM fake application which now not only affects users who speak English but to users of Latin America, “said Dmitry Bestuzhev, Director of Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab Latin America.

The victim, while installing the application on your device, you must accept the “terms and conditions” in which the application referred to Airpush, which comes along with the BBM false , you can collect the device “certain data, including Android ID, IP address and the list of all applications installed on your computer”. It also mentions that the Airpush can automatically receive content from the Internet and interact with your geolocation.

Unfortunately, few people read those terms and most simply accept any contract without reading display.

According Bestuzhev, the application, which was discharged in Google Play, recorded a number of victims exceeded 300 different IDs in a few hours. This could be an even bigger number in number of Android devices.

most dangerous actions you can take this false BBM are:

installing and removing the phone’s file system
• access sensitive information from log files
• geographical access the phone
• Internet access
• Use GPS for precise geographical location of the phone
• Add or modify the history and browser bookmarks phone
• read the history and browser bookmarks phone
• modify / delete SD card data
• information on the phone status
• get the list of applications that are running on the phone

addition to the above actions, AirPush program, including the false application of BBM, has a potentially unwanted functionality, as sometimes functions as a Adware.

Kaspersky Lab analysts

offer the following tips for users to protect themselves from this type of rogue applications:

Learn how social engineering to avoid becoming a victim of this. In particular, in the case of BBM fake application, always check who is the developer, which is the date of entry to the market application of Google Play and also what the official says BlackBerry on the launch of BBM.
1. Use an Anti-Virus is key to protect against attacks that can not be identified as malicious, especially when the download has already been done.
2. When installing any application on your phone, check that this is requiring permits. Where many or suspects, simply cancel the installation.