NetQin a security company warned about the dangers of a new virus that attacks smart phones based Symbian OS. According to NetQin, that virus is difficult to detect because it disguised in mobile game. Some of the Symbian platform that became the target are S60 3rd Edition and S60 5th edition or the Symbian OS 9.4.
Quoted by SF Gate, Friday (7/9/2010), this virus was detected and named ShadowSrv.A, FC.Downsis.A, BIT.N and MapPlug.A, this virus are fused in a game in Symbian mobile phones. When the game is executed, the virus directly take over the mobile phone and tucked Malware.
Once infected, the virus will send a message to all contacts directly, and send messages to random phone numbers to connect to the server, "wrote NetQin.
"The message contains a URL that contains content such as video called the World Cup or the popular television show, which actually is a site full of viruses. After that, the virus will delete the messages sent from the outbox SMS, including logs," he added.
In late 2009, NetQin also found a botnet named iKee attacking iPhone.
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