Mobile Virus Costing Users £5 to Send Premium Rate Text Messages
René Millman writes on SC Magazine Online:
Speaking at Infosec Europe 2006, Anti-virus company F-Secure had found a proof-of-concept virus that had been developed to illegally steal money from mobile customers.More here.
"This virus gets your mobile phone to text a premium rate number and then it sends an authority that can then charge you without your knowledge," said Richard Hales, UK country manager at F-Secure.
At the firm's stand at the show, it had set up a honeypot where it discovered over a thousand Bluetooth-enabled devices in the first three hours of the show.
Hales said the new virus was similar to the CommWarrior virus that propagated itself via multimedia messages and Bluetooth. He warned that user ignorance was the main reason behind the spread of the malware.
posted by Fergie @ 4/26/2006 07:39:00 AM
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