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Malicious Application Instaagent Has Been Removed From AppStore

InstaAgent (Who’s viewed your profile) which has become one of the most popular applications in the App Store, has been removed from the App Store.It is estimated that the number reached 500K downloads so far and it is stated that InstaAgent transferred all Instagram user passwords to their server.

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David L, who has a small application software development studio based in Germany revealed that it is a malicious software application which was registered by Turker Bayram. Examining the application by the developer, instaagent sends users’ private information without encryption to a server named instagram.zunamedia.com.It causes that to share photos on users’ Instagram profiles without the consent of the users.As you can guess this server has any connection with the Instagram’s official servers.

After the emergence of the problem, Instagram suggested to delete InstaAgent application and change their password to users.

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