First SMS Trojan Detected for Android Smartphones

All you Android smart phone owners should be on the lookout, Kaspersky Lab says there is a new malicious Trojan-SMS making the rounds.

The new malicious program penetrates smartphones running Android in the guise of a harmless media player application. Users are prompted to install a file of just over 13 KB with the standard Android extension .APK. Once installed on the phone, the Trojan uses the system to begin sending SMSs to premium rate numbers without the owner’s knowledge or consent, resulting in money passing from a user’s account to that of the cybercriminals.

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