October 2006 mobile threats
By Dusan Belic on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 at 5:19 AM PST In Security
During October F-Secure’s viruslab analyzed following new virus samples:
Mopofeli.A is an SMS spying tool that runs on Symbian S60 2nd Edition devices. When Mopofeli.A is installed on the device, it will forward all incoming and outgoing SMS messages to an external number specified within the software’s configuration file. When active on the device, Mopofeli.A hides it’s process so that it is not visible in the Symbian process list.
Other analyzed viruses were Appdisabler variants: Appdisabler.J, Appdisabler.K, Appdisabler.L and Appdisabler.M.
By the end of October the total number of mobile viruses rose up to 331.
