New Trojan Pretends to be Antivirus Software
Anti-virus maker F-Secure warned mobile phone users about a slippery new trojan disguising itself as an antivirus application.
Although the worm, dubbed Skulls.L, is similar to the Skulls.C trojan, writers have added a new wrinkle that differentiates it from previous variants: It’s advertised with a name used for F-Secure’s Mobile Anti-Virus installation package.
“The trojan obviously does not contain pirate copied version of anti-virus, it breaks the system applications on the phone, so that none of the smartphone functions of the phone are (sic) as long as the phone is infected,” Jarno Niemela, a virus researcher, wrote on the company’s weblog.