Thursday, May 24, 2007
And so it begins -- mobile phone malware
Up to now, whenever I've read about something that was supposed to be malicious software for a cell phone, it's seemed like a non-issue.
But now there's a real Trojan Horse program for Symbian phones. It does real damage, sending text messages to numbers that impose extra charges, it does it without giving you a chance to stop it, and worst of all it's "real", it has happened in the wild and not as part of a demonstration or a test.
There will be more like this one. Be careful what you download.
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But now there's a real Trojan Horse program for Symbian phones. It does real damage, sending text messages to numbers that impose extra charges, it does it without giving you a chance to stop it, and worst of all it's "real", it has happened in the wild and not as part of a demonstration or a test.
There will be more like this one. Be careful what you download.