Threat Category: Mobile threats | Page 20

Occasionally something comes along that stands out a bit: right now, it’s Trojan-SMS.WinCE.Sejweek.a, a new program designed to send SMS messages from an infected device.

Today we added detection for a new variant of the program – not-a-virus.Porn-Dialer.SymbOS.Pornidal.c. Just like its predecessor, this application can be harmful for two reasons.

The evolution of mobile malware all but stopped after the publication of our first two articles on the subject. This is why there has been an interval of nearly three years between articles

Today we detected a new potentially unwanted program for smartphones running Symbian S60 2nd edition – not-a-virus:Porn-Dialer.SymbOS.Pornidal.a

We’ve just detected a new malicious program with a similar payload: Trojan-SMS.J2ME.GameSat.a.

We found 5 new Trojans over the past week which send such money transfer requests to 151 – without the permission or knowledge of the phone’s owner.

We picked up this Trojan a while ago, but the latest variant of Trojan-SMS.J2ME.Konov is now spreading via social networking sites, specifically “Vkontakte” (the Russian version of Facebook).

One of the most notable malicious programs during the first half of 2008 was, undoubtedly, the Storm worm (classified by Kaspersky Lab as Zhelatin). It remains in the vanguard of Malware 2.0.

We came across some interesting mobile phone software yesterday. It’s designed for the J2ME platform for mobiles and it’s a midlet with a Kaspersky Anti-Virus icon

Our annual report on malware evolution in 2007, published a few months ago, contained forecasts on how the threat landscape would evolve in 2008

This annual report provides an overview the evolution of malware, adware and potentially malicious programs in 2007, and compares this data to that of 2006.

This quarterly report may be the most unusual of all of our previous quarterly reports. The events that took place during the first six months of 2007 have shown us that the direction in which threats are evolving is from social engineering to the increased usage of a variety of vulnerabilities to penetrate the system

This week’s been an interesting one in the world of mobile malware. We detected three variants of a new Trojan for mobile phones, Trojan-SMS.SymbOS.Viver

The one that didn’t get away

Strangers on a train

Reports

Kaspersky researchers analyze EAGERBEE backdoor modules, revealing a possible connection to the CoughingDown APT actor.

While investigating an incident involving the BellaCiao .NET malware, Kaspersky researchers discovered a C++ version they dubbed “BellaCPP”.

Lazarus targets employees of a nuclear-related organization with a bunch of malware, such as MISTPEN, LPEClient, RollMid, CookieTime and a new modular backdoor CookiePlus.

Kaspersky researchers analyze 2019, 2022 and 2024 attacks attributed to Careto APT with medium to high confidence.

Mobile threats

Trojan-SMS.WinCE.Sejweek

Porn dialers for smartphones, part 2

Mobile Malware Evolution: An Overview, Part 3

Porn dialers for smartphones

Indonesian Trojans redux

Mobile thefts – using malware in Indonesia

Move on, move on…

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2008: Malware Evolution January – June 2008

Antivirus Fraudware Goes Mobile?

Malware evolution: January – March 2008

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2007: Malware evolution in 2007

Malware Evolution: April – June 2007

Viver unveiled

The one that didn’t get away

Strangers on a train

Reports

EAGERBEE, with updated and novel components, targets the Middle East

BellaCPP: Discovering a new BellaCiao variant written in C++

Lazarus group evolves its infection chain with old and new malware

Careto is back: what’s new after 10 years of silence?

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