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SMS Trojan Steals From Android Owners

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-way-i-wanted-hott-sexx dept.

siliconbits writes "A Trojan posing as a media player for Android smartphones automatically sends text messages to premium rate numbers, according to Kaspersky Lab. Company officials say the Trojan, dubbed Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a, is the first of its kind for the Android platform, even though SMS Trojans are currently the most widespread type of malware on mobile phones."

3 of 168 comments (clear)

  1. Hahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hahaha! Good thing I have an iPhon.....*signal lost*

  2. Protection by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 2, Funny

    With Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a, you can now have two different trojans in your pocket to offer the ladies.

  3. Re:Is this really a trojan? by nschubach · · Score: 2, Funny

    Personally, I'd like to see an OS driven prompt to have access to things like contacts, messaging and phone access.

    If your app needs a contact to send a message, it would have to pass that message to the OS and the OS would prompt the user for the contact to send it to. This way, no apps need access to contacts to send messages for some reason. The same applies to phone numbers, etc.

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