[IP] Spyware for cellphones
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000844
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
First Trojan Spy for Symbian Phones Posted by Jarno @ 16:19 GMT
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Today we heard of a rather interesting new Symbian malware
application named
Flexispy.A. It's a Symbian trojan spy that records information about the
victim's phone calls and SMS messages, then sends them to a remote
server.
What makes this interesting is that Flexispy.A is a trojan spy
written by a
company for commercial reasons. The company claims that it's a useful
tool
for catching a cheating spouse. By installing the application on the
phone
they can monitor to whom the victim is calling and what SMS messages
he or
she is sending. The company even claims that Flexispy is not a trojan.
However, this application installs itself without any kind of
indication as
to what it is. And when it is installed on the phone it completely hides
itself from the user. So the application could easily be used by malware
installing it as part of its payload, or a hacker could simply send
it to a
victim over Bluetooth and trust that there are enough curious people to
install it.
Not to mention the fact that spying on people's private communication is
illegal in most countries around the world. And the fact that all of the
information is stored on the FlexiSpy servers, puts the company in a
rather
interesting light.
So yes, FlexiSpy is indeed a trojan and we have added the detection
to our
F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus so that any user who has a phone that has
been
infected with this trojan will get a warning that someone is spying
on them.
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