Kaspersky Lab introduces free scanner app for Android devices

In order to safeguard users against a number of Android vulnerabilities discovered in recent months, Kaspersky Lab has released a free mobile application for the platform. Kaspersky Fake ID Scanner scans smartphones and tablets for vulnerabilities that put users’ valuable data, privacy and even money at risk.

Although, as a rule, Google quickly closes vulnerabilities, millions of Android users remain at risk, since it often takes device manufacturers a long time to update firmware. Malware can use such vulnerabilities to make its way onto smartphones and tablets, often disguised as popular applications, in order to steal personal data stored on the devices, hijack user accounts on social networks, steal online banking credentials, etc.

In order to prevent such vulnerabilities from being exploited, Kaspersky Lab has developed Kaspersky Free Fake ID Scanner – a tool which device owners to scan their devices for all of these vulnerabilities and ascertain that no applications that exploit them are installed on their devices. The application does not close the vulnerabilities detected, but it prompts the user to install a free version of Kaspersky Internet Security for Android if any threats are detected. That product will protect the device against a malicious code regardless of the vulnerabilities exploited by the malware.

The application, which is compatible with Android 2.3 and later versions, is available in Google Play in two languages – English and Russian.