It's not a virus, but it can cause a significant amount of financial damage to the owner before they realize what's going on (which likely requires seeing a bill). A cracked version of popular Mosquitos game for Symbian based smartphones sends SMS to premium numbers without the owner's knowledge. The first reporting of this behavior was in our forums. Since then Cyrus Peikari, Seth Fogie, Jonathan Read and David Hettel have written a five part article about malware (trojan, worm and virus) for mobile phones, including a special analysis of this cracked version. |
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