New mobile trojan infects smartphones
Posted: January 26th, 2009 | Tags: Malware, Trojan |Harmful program Trojan-SMS.Python.Flocker for the first time has been found out last week; for today several updates of it are detected.
It is known that many operators of a mobile communication render the subscribers service in transfer of means from one account on another by means of special commands. Such function also is used by the new trojan: after penetration on the smartphone under control of operating system Symbian OS the harmful program starts to send SMS with instructions about remittance.
The sum varies between $0,45 and $0,9, and at enough considerable quantity infected smartphones incomes of malefactors can make the considerable sums.
However, distribution of the trojan restrains that it is not capable to breed independently. Infection of the smartphone occurs only in the event that its owner himself will download and will instal this program. Now cases of the infection of smartphones are detected in Indonesia.
Experts recommend to owners of smartphones not to load suspicious files and to use anti-virus protection.
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