“Kaspersky” said the stolen data, “hundreds of thousands” of users, “VKontakte” – Business Petersburg

October 9, 2015, 16:12 | dp.ru

The data of many users of social network” VKontakte “have been stolen, said experts “Kaspersky Lab”. According to them, we can talk about hundreds of thousands of people. Internet, VKontakte, Social Networks

These multiple users of social network” VKontakte “has been stolen by a music application for smartphones based on operating system Android, reported experts “Kaspersky Lab”. The victims of criminals could be hundreds of thousands of people, living mainly in Russia.

“The theft of information through the application to listen to music posted in the official Google Play store called” Music VKontakte “. How do I find experts, the program contained malicious code, but users were not even aware of it, because the application is working properly and perform its primary function – Plays the record of the social network, “- told in the laboratory.

” Kaspersky Lab “already notified Google Play for malware problem, but criminals add new version of the program instead of deleted. At the moment, according to experts, it has been working for the seventh this version.

“For the user, the fact of theft of data for authorization in the social network” VKontakte “in the case of this malicious application can remain undetected until the attackers did not change the password . At the same time we fix a huge number of infections according to Trojan, mostly in Russia. The situation is aggravated ease with which hackers spread each new version of an infected application to replace the blocked Google “, – said Roman Unuchek, anti-virus expert” Kaspersky Lab “.