ZDNet: Mobile malware smarter, more prevalent

Malware authors are getting better at attacking mobile phones, by taking a trick or two from their desktop days and applying them to phones, according to researchers from Symantec and Total Defense.

By Michael Lee
March 13, 2012

Symantec researcher Joji Hamada said that criminals have turned to Twitter as a means of advertising and luring mobile victims to places they have stashed malware online, which will, for example, force a phone to send SMS texts to premium-rate numbers that the criminal has a stake in.

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