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During March, Android Market was affected by the appearance of 21 malicious applications, thus confirming the trend towards the development of malware for mobile platforms. In addition, Twitter and Facebook were again attacked. This month, both mobile devices and social networks are consolidated as the favorite targets of cyber attackers, who led their teams with both threats Android platform and users of Twitter and Facebook, according to ESET, the leader in information security. 21 were found to be malicious applications distributed through Android Market, an open system of content distribution for devices based on Android operating system that allows users to browse, buy, install and download third-party applications.

Once you download the application produced the infection of your computer, from which the malicious code of the device provided information to remote servers. Among the data transmitted in this way is the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity, Spanish International Mobile Equipment Identity) to identify a team of uniquely global. Among the affected applications are Falling Down, Super Guitar Solo, Super Ringtone Maker, Super Sex Positions, Chess, Advanced Currency Converter and Spider Man, among others. They also perform other malicious code downloads without user consent. During March, the second focus of attack privileged malware developers were the social networks. For its part, Twitter was affected by a malicious link distributed through social engineering, with the promise of who visited our profile on the popular microblogging network.