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New Skulls Program Kills Cell Phone Applications
Jeremy L. Muncy
Staff Writer
2004-11-22
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Virus authors have found new prey. They are going after Symbian based cell phones with a new trojan horse that kills applications and replaces their icons with a skull image.
Simply called "Skulls", the new program comes disguised as a theme manager for Nokia phones in the Symbian Installation System format, according to Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research for F-Secure.
The number of downloads are minimal, "we are not talking about a huge amount of infected people, and it is not a virus, so it is not spreading," Hypponen said. "It does no permanent damage. But it does mean that people are investing time in investigating the possibilities" for infecting and damaging mobile phones, he said.
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Jeremy Muncy is the editor of http://www.SecurityProNews.com.
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