Cell Phone Trojan (Mosquito Dialer Trojan)

[HTRegz]

Hey Hey,

I occasionally get emails from InformIT.com.... they usually aren't anything special, but I always give them a quick once over. This time however, one of the links caught my attention.

http://www.informit.com/articles/art...27994&seqNum=1

The summer of 2003 brought a new wave of a deadly, mosquito-borne viruses. This summer, a new Mosquito-borne infection arrived. But it didn't attack humans. Rather, it infected cellular phones.

The Symbian operating system powers many cellular phones, and also supports a wide range of third-party applications—including games. Unfortunately, one popular game turned out to have a "cracked" version that was secretly infected with a Trojan horse. The Mosquito dialer Trojan infects the popular game Mosquito with code that secretly messages pay-per-call numbers.

This is getting kind of scary, I quite often download games to my cell phone for the ride home from work. I have a 45 minute bus ride, and cell phone solitaire and cured my boredom many times.

The article is a very interesting read, and looks over identifying the abusive code and prevention and protection against it. Anyways... thought you all might enjoy it.

Peace,
HT

[kurt_der_koenig]

umm..lol. shows what happens when you start to use web based programming languages in cell phones. Thats why I still have a phone with a green display..

[yourdeadin]

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=259921
check out the link give ,got some news and some comments in the same topic

[Cybr1d]

umm..lol. shows what happens when you start to use web based programming languages in cell phones. Thats why I still have a phone with a green display..

Thats not any safer. SMS bombing is quite effective againts older phones.