The first business based on a Symbian virus

While TamsPalm was offline, F-Securr found the first trojan for Symbian phones that is intended to generate money for its creator-the novelty is that the cash now comes from end users.

FlexiSpy is described as an application that can monitor mobile phones and report about incoming and outgoing calls, SMS,… on a web site. The critical thing is that the program installs itself just like a virus-no warning, no nothing…

While it looks as if PalmOS boxen are not endangered, this virus is a new kind of threat. RedBrowser generated money for the developer via a service that was easy to shut down(kill the 0190 numbers); but the FlexiSpy cash sources(end users) will be difficult to get…

Get the full scoop here:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-032006.html#00000844

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