Today's announcement of SimWorks security software shows that a significant number of hackers are hiding in various forms of games and software on handheld devices.
The above Trojan code contains malicious code that can cripple many important components in the system. These programs are only aimed at phones using the Symbian smartphone operating system (which is competing with similar Microsoft software for bringing PC features to phones). SimWorks' discovery has raised the number of Symbian software detections so far to over 100.
So far, no-one has actually been attacked, but SimWorks and Finnish security firm F-Secure still give high-level warnings to the communications industry. wireless. According to Davidson, hackers are designing and launching software that attacks the phone with increasing density. From June to October last year, there was a new Symbian virus a month ago. Currently, this rate is one week per virus.
In fact, smartphones still account for only a small percentage of the total mobile phone sales. However, analysts and manufacturers say that as advanced operating systems like Symbian become more popular over the next decade, the virus will also thrive in parallel.
