Members
  • Total Members: 14176
  • Latest: toxxxa
Stats
  • Total Posts: 42871
  • Total Topics: 16080
  • Online Today: 3887
  • Online Ever: 51419
  • (01. January 2010., 10:27:49)









Author Topic: New mobile Trojan swipes money via SMS (SMS.Python.Flocker)  (Read 5870 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Samker

  • SCF Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 7528
  • KARMA: 322
  • Gender: Male
  • Whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
    • SCforum.info - Samker's Computer Forum


Kaspersky Labs, maker of a popular antivirus application, has detected a new malicious program capable of controlling a user's mobile phone account.

The Trojan called "SMS.Python.Flocker" is written in the scripting language Python, targets Symbian phones belonging to customers of an Indonesian mobile phone operators and is capable of sending SMS messages to a short number with instructions to transfer part of the money in the user's account to another account, which belongs to the cybercriminals.

The amounts transferred range from $0.45 - $0.90 for each SMS sent. The amount can quickly build up and if a large amount of phones were to be affected the amount could become quite substantial.

    "Obviously, the authors of the Trojan want to make money," said Denis Maslennikov, a senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab. "It seems that the focus on financial fraud in the mobile malware industry will only get more pronounced over time. Until recently, many people thought that malicious programs that send SMS messages without the user's knowledge were a purely Russian phenomenon. Now we can see that the problem no longer affects only Russian users - it's becoming an international issue."

Kaspersky Lab recommends users to exercise caution when using a smartphone to browse the Internet and to keep antivirus databases up-to-date.

(Neowin)

Samker's Computer Forum - SCforum.info


dananos

  • SCF Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 3
  • KARMA: 1
    • Free SMS blog
Re: New mobile Trojan swipes money via SMS (SMS.Python.Flocker)
« Reply #1 on: 29. September 2010., 17:48:13 »
Premium SMS messaging, in the UK anyway are limited to £30 per day, so you can't be *wiped* by these viruses, but you really do need to spot it quickly.

Here is a table that shows how much per SMS / per country you would be likely to be charged;
http://freebiesms.blogspot.com/2010/05/paygol-premium-sms-table.html
To err is human, to moo bovine.

luzimenfis

  • SCF Member
  • **
  • Posts: 28
  • KARMA: 3
Re: New mobile Trojan swipes money via SMS (SMS.Python.Flocker)
« Reply #2 on: 17. October 2010., 12:57:48 »
pay attention

krrjhn

  • SCF Advanced Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 213
  • KARMA: -5
Re: New mobile Trojan swipes money via SMS (SMS.Python.Flocker)
« Reply #3 on: 15. January 2011., 07:18:16 »
very Unique topic !!

Samker's Computer Forum - SCforum.info

Re: New mobile Trojan swipes money via SMS (SMS.Python.Flocker)
« Reply #3 on: 15. January 2011., 07:18:16 »

 

With Quick-Reply you can write a post when viewing a topic without loading a new page. You can still use bulletin board code and smileys as you would in a normal post.

Name: Email:
Verification:
Type the letters shown in the picture
Listen to the letters / Request another image
Type the letters shown in the picture:
Second Anti-Bot trap, type or simply copy-paste below (only the red letters):www.scforum.info:

Enter your email address to receive daily email with 'SCforum.info - Samker's Computer Forum' newest content:

Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Advertising