

The app also contained Android.FakeYouWon, a malware that displays websites promoting fake offers and scams. The program’s developers borrowed open-source code from the real Telegram app, a program that provides encrypted messaging, while adding code that forced the app to try to connect to gaming sites, pornography and other suspicious URLs on a constant basis. and the United Arab Emirates - before it was scrubbed from Google’s marketplace. The MobonoGram 2019 app was downloaded more than 100,000 times - mostly by users in Iran, the U.S. A bogus version of the messaging app Telegram infected downloaders’ phones with a pernicious strain of malware that sent devices searching for malicious sites on an endless loop, according to Symantec research published Monday.
