Earlier this week, a type of Trojan called the Skulls was attacking Symbian-based Nokia phones, security companies and cell phone manufacturers running "hot sauce".
Because in addition to security solutions - anti-virus for new smartphones, they also have to find protection for other mobile devices too.
This kind of Skulls trojan is so powerful that it can replace all the icons of the applications in the phone with its own skeleton skeleton image. Worse still, imaging and messaging applications are disabled.
However, according to security company Sophos, the Skulls are currently only running on newer Series 60 phones with Symbian operating systems, but according to security experts, This type of attack on other mobile devices is completely possible.
"There are very few types of viruses that work on cell phones," said Peter Firstbrook, a Meta Group expert. According to our calculations, only about 12 types of viruses have been developed "dedicated" to mobile devices and only a few of them have the ability to "stir", almost Trojan - worms are used to confront PCs.
"It costs just $ 20 to $ 30 to fix an infected phone," says Firstbrook.
