Trojan horses target Symbian phones

Posted by Chris Leckness on Jan 23, 2006 Share

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Apparently the hackers out there aren’t content just to screw with your computer anymore.  Three new Trojan horses out there were made to be spread by your Symbian operated cell phone.  The malicious programs are spread through bluetooth and multimedia applications and appear to be legitimate at first.  One of the Trojans will send all of the personal information that is stored on the phone to anyone around you that happens to have a bluetooth enabled device.  Another, which is much worse, will cause your phone to reboot, but will corrupt it so that it cannot come back up, leaving your phone worthless.  Isn’t it just great that people have nothing better to do with their time than mess up things for other people?

Source: MobileMag 

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