emerging popularity of smartphones make mengincarnya intense cyber criminals. One of the attacks is now climbing the spread of pornographic applications turned out to be a Trojan. Ends swollen phone bills.
Security analysts said targeted smartphone users with the old trick used Trojan Dialers, so suddenly received a huge phone bill for sending SMS or call a premium number. This trick first used to infect a dial-up Internet access.
Reported by PCWorld and quoted on Monday (18/1/2010), most attacks in a message disguised berunsur temptation of pornography service, where users are asked to follow instructions such as clicking a particular link. But ultimately, they will install malicious applications.
Researchers at software vendor CA, Dinesh Venkatesan, warned that the results of laboratory analysis revealed Dialers Trojan attacks jump in mobile devices. As a result, infected device will send SMS to premium numbers.
According to CA, Trojans made based programming language Java 2 Micro Edition. "Immediately after the application is loaded, malicious software is going to start sending SMS premium," said Venkatesan. The application is apparently packaged with the data file (load.bin) with a list of list of premium numbers.
On the other hand, Mikko Hypponensaid as the head of security research at F Secure mobile, admitted his party also met some of the attacks. This type of attack as desirable because it allows criminals to make money with instant way.
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