The Android operating system pays its popularity, with an increasing number of malware: according to data firm Fortinet, 1300 pourriciels appear every day, and would count more than 900,000 at work. Now, one of the famous tablets on the market, the Kindle Fire runs on the OS Fire, Amazon owns an overlay without waiver of these attacks.
By visiting a WordPress website with its tablet, a user has seen to spring a nice pop-up window, telling him that he had to make an update. Of course, the message is a fake, and it is clear that the web page is not going to absolutely verify the integrity of the kernel device – and even less, to repair anything.
Click OK then leads the user to another page, the more big again, that offers the future victim to install the update. The two buttons, Cancel, or install, will return to the same Android application, which will then be used to infect the machine.
The latter comes from a Chinese e-commerce company, and though in itself it is not malicious, it will send the personal data of the user, on several occasions, and it is not possible to prevent it. Neither know.
In late December, the publisher of Kaspersky antivirus already reported that the malware began to populate the Amazon App Store after being released from the Google Play. Two false applications were detected, and, according to the researchers, the popularity of Amazon would incite vigilance find malicious apps from the Store was quite logical in view of the availability of tablets and public enthusiasm for latter.
If the Kindle Fire propriétarisée works with a version of the Android OS , it remains a bit of fondness for pirates. According to Kaspersky, threats specifically targeting the tablet come mostly a rather lax policy regarding applications offered to users.
Prudence remains of valor, including Kindle Fire.
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