Date of Publishing : 17/9/2010

Location: Mumbai

The authors of this particular trojan use a tactic known as search engine poisoning to spread the malware. That is, they crafted websites specifically to appear near the top of search results for certain search queries. By placing malicious websites at the top of search results, mobile users who are by nature looking for fast easy results are more likely to click through without due diligence of ensuring the top hits are safe. This has been a common theme of PC-based malware and is now a lucrative trend in the mobile domain for an increasingly popular platform. When the trojan is installed, it’ll ask you to access Android’s messaging system. If you deny it, the malicious portion of the code will not be allowed to function. It’s a lesson in both trusting your application sources, and paying attention to mandatory security.

As smartphones get more complicated, so do bugs

Reference:

• THE TIMES NEWS NETWORK