F-Secure: First Trojan Spyware for Symbian Phones

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Go ahead, punk -- do you feel lucky?

_This_ is why PayPal'ing via SMS is just slightly dangerous. ;-)

Via F-Secure.

[snip]

Today we heard of a rather interesting new Symbian malware application named Flexispy.A. It's a Symbian trojan spy that 
records information about the victim's phone calls and SMS messages, then sends them to a remote server.

What makes this interesting is that Flexispy.A is a trojan spy written by a company for commercial reasons. The company 
claims that it's a useful tool for catching a cheating spouse. By installing the application on the phone they can 
monitor to whom the victim is calling and what SMS messages he or she is sending. The company even claims that Flexispy 
is not a trojan.

However, this application installs itself without any kind of indication as to what it is. And when it is installed on 
the phone it completely hides itself from the user. So the application could easily be used by malware installing it as 
part of its payload, or a hacker could simply send it to a victim over Bluetooth and trust that there are enough 
curious people to install it.

[snip]

More:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000844


...and so it begins.

Enjoy,

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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