The adage 'be careful what you wish for' has a modern-day counterpart: “Be careful what you download.” Especially on your mobile phone.
Once the file is installed, the Trojan horse begins sending text messages to premium-rate phone numbers “without the owner’s knowledge or consent, resulting in money passing from a user’s account to that of the cybercriminals .”
"what appears to be a “harmless media player.”
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Posted 14 years ago #
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If people would just bother to look at the "are you sure" screen before installing. One way to prevent such attacks is to disallow unsigned apps, but stuff could still slip through the Marketplace.
Posted 14 years ago #
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