Offenders being diligent distribute technology applications intended for Windows Mobile-based smartphones. Certainly not any application, on the back, there is a "time bomb" that is drilled.If the application is installed, it will make calls to premium numbers worldwide and make phone owners flooded with phone bills that he did not actually use.
Applications that contain malicious malware is detected include the Anti-Terrorist 3D gaming, PDA Poker Art, and the Codec Pack for Windows Mobile 1.0.
Applications are being distributed through the nine-download site is popular among DoDownload, GearDownload, and Software112.
"The perpetrator copying programs and repacking malware program with features in it," said John Hering, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lookout, as quoted by CNET, June 5, 2010. "After the application is installed, the virus is active immediately and start contacting premium numbers like those in Somalia and the South Pole,".
Vulture said, users probably will not realize it until he arrival of the telephone bills worth $ 50 or $ 100 more expensive than it should.
Crimes by auto-dial method is very common in Russia and other countries, but rarely occur in the United States. However, this trend seems to be changing.
Six months ago, the Lookout, which is an enterprise mobile device security specialist found that on average there are four in 100 smartphone malware. "We have doubled the score to 9 malware found on 100 mobile phones,".
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