First Trojan detected for phones running Android
Posted on August 11, 2010 by by valerirojas
Time to share a really bad news for all the Google Android smart phone owners.
According to Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, the first malicious program classified as a Trojan-SMS has been detected for smartphones running on Google’s Android operating system.
The Trojan is called Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a, and it looks like it has already infected a number of mobile devices.
“The new Trojan penetrates smartphones running Android in the guise of a harmless media player application. Users are prompted to install a file of just over 13 KB with the standard Android extension .APK. Once installed on the phone, the Trojan uses the system to begin sending SMSs to premium rate numbers without the owner’s knowledge or consent, resulting in money passing from a user’s account to that of the cybercriminals.”
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