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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."

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  1. Re:Is this really a trojan? by dissy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why not just take the literally 20 seconds to read what parts of the phone an app wants access to?

    I don't see how that would even help.

    So you are looking for a text messaging app, do a search and find a ton of them.
    My evil app is in the store listed as an SMS app, and listed with some neato features that look interesting to you. It's free, so you download it to give it a try.

    Are you telling us that when the text messaging app requests permissions to send text messages, after spending 20 seconds reading the dialog box, you would be shocked and appalled at that and click to disallow it??

    That is what they mean by hiding such 'trojan' (really just bad) behavior in an app that has otherwise useful and related features.