- Jan 24, 2011
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Recently, Kaspersky has seen SMS Trojans starting to appear in more and more countries. One prominent example is Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.Stealer.a: this Trojan came top in Kaspersky Lab's recent mobile malware ТОР 20. It can currently send short messages to premium-rate numbers in 14 countries around the world.
But this is not all. Another Trojan, Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakeInst.ef, targets users in 66 countries, including the US. This is the first case we have found involving an active SMS Trojan in the United States.
The geographical distribution of Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakeInst.ef infections
FakeInst disguises itself as an application for watching porn videos.
The application asks the user to agree to send a text message to purchase paid content. However, after sending the message the Trojan opens a free-access website.
Read more: http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/8209/An_SMS_Trojan_with_global_ambitions
But this is not all. Another Trojan, Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakeInst.ef, targets users in 66 countries, including the US. This is the first case we have found involving an active SMS Trojan in the United States.
The geographical distribution of Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakeInst.ef infections
FakeInst disguises itself as an application for watching porn videos.
The application asks the user to agree to send a text message to purchase paid content. However, after sending the message the Trojan opens a free-access website.
Read more: http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/8209/An_SMS_Trojan_with_global_ambitions
