A new variant of the Skulls software targeting Symbian phones has just been discovered. F-Secure, the Finnish company, said that, like its predecessors, the D version "kills" all system applications.
However, instead of turning the icons on the device into skulls, Skulls.D tells the user their machine was infected by displaying a scintillating skull full screen.
This variant pretends to be a Macromedia Flash engine, which attacks Symbian Series 60 devices. People with infected phones will not be able to use programs, take pictures, or send text. you can still call.
This Trojan also prevents the host from installing new applications, so most infected machines will have to be reinstalled, ie back to the default mode of the new machine and any data, such as the address book. , will be deleted.
F-Secure said that only two people reported being infected with Skulls.D after downloading the application from a web forum. According to Mikko Hypponen, Research Director at F-Secure, phone users can minimize the risk of infection by raising awareness when downloading counterfeit applications, especially from peer-to-peer networks. . The expert warns that more Skulls will appear in the future.
