InstaAgent – ​​the Instagram app that steals users' passwords

InstaAgent malwareWho Viewed Your Profile – InstaAgent is an application available until last night in App Store for iPhone or iPod Touch, it was created to allow users to see who viewed their profile Instagram.

To provide such information, the application InstaAgent it asked users to log into the application using their Instagram account, and from there their passwords reached the servers of a company where virtual robots were logged into the accounts to publish various content.

After using the application InstaAgent several users have noticed that messages or pictures appear on their accounts that they did not publish, some of them being similar to the image you see in the upper left part of this article.

Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), si Google deleted the InstaAgent application from App Store si Google Play, but she recorded between 100.000 and 500.000 downloads in the store Google and there is a possibility that in App Store to have had a similar popularity.

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Considering that the application takes the passwords and Instagram accounts from the terminals and transmits them to the servers of strangers, if you have used the InstaAgent application, I think it is quite clear that you must change your password right now.

In the same vein, considering what happened with InstaAgent, you should avoid in any way logging into various more or less well-known applications with your Facebook/Instagram/etc accounts, if you do not have a double authentication system activated .

No matter how popular an application can be in the App Store, until a detailed analysis of it, no one can know what kind of code is hidden inside it and how bad such a title can do, so it is good to always be cautious for not to lose your accounts.