Don’t pay high phone bills: SMS Trojans can trick you via premium-rate numbers

ronjor · Nov 29, 2012

by Pablo Ramos Security Researcher

Could that smartphone in your pocket be making money for cybercriminals? Yes it could, and in this article we will explain how, using a real world example that has been targeting Android phones around the world. The use of smartphones is now very common in a wide range of countires. We carry them with us from the moment we wake up and we use them all day long. We use them to connect to the Internet, read emails, share information through social networks, to play video games and communicate with our friends and relatives.

With such a wide range of functionality, demand for these devices keeps rising, so an increasing number of new smartphones are being activated every day. This has become a profitable market not only for vendors and service providers, but also for cybercriminals who have started to target these platforms – not only to steal information from them, but also to use the mobile phone to make a profit by subscribing users to premium-rate numbers.
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http://blog.eset.com/2012/11/29/android-sms-trojan-tricks-you-into-premium-rate-calls

ronjor · Dec 4, 2012

Android devices in U.S. face more malware attacks than PCs

By John P. Mello Jr. | PC World

Android devices are now attacked more often by malware than PCs, according to a report released today by Sophos, a cyber security software maker. It said that almost 10 percent of Android devices in the U.S. have experienced a malware attack over a three-month period in 2012, compared to about 6 percent of PCs.

With 52.2 percent of the smartphone market in the United States, Android has become a tempting target. "Targets this large are difficult for malware authors to resist," the report said. "And they arent resisting attacks against Android are increasing rapidly."
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https://www.infoworld.com/d/security/android-devices-in-us-face-more-malware-attacks-pcs-208462

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