Mobile equipment owner must be more carefully. A first mobile malware, named Sexy View or Sexy Space, just founded by security researchers. Sexy View written specially fot attack handphone with Symbian OS. Sezy View fist time detectioned six months ago in China. But now infection payload showed many characteristic grom binet PC software and more sophisticated compare with hakded attacker was happend before. Sexy View/Space was able ti upload themself and upgraded SMS template without user helper. How sexy View attacked? Basically Sexty View uses basic attack vectors was used by PC base malware. Program (known as SymbOS.Exy.C by Symantec) spread via short massage services (SMS) to attend the readers upload a application thatlook safety. The bait was a setence “A very sexy girl, Try it now!” . In that massage was a web address contained trojan. If you click that link, Sexy View automatically installed as valid apllication, complete with validation certificate from Symbian. But this new application will gathering all your detail and contact list. From your contact list will be use to send cheating massage to another. No only that, this trojan also take your serial number and customer number from handphone, and send via internet to remote command and control server.
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