Trojan gives hackers control

• Book ID: 104391107
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 139 KB
• Volume: 2000
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1353-4858
• DOI: 10.1016/s1353-4858(00)09003-6

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networks in order to transmit the malicious SMS messages: www.free-sms.com, smslink.btn. de, www.nm-info.de, www.pcteam. de, www. mobidig.net, www.lycos.de. Kaspersky Lab specialists classify this program as a malicious code, but confirm that the program itself is not dangerous because it does not perform any destructive action and is not capable of replication. To date, the program has only been discovered in Germany, seemingly because the gateways listed above only allow SMS messages on the German mobile phone network. However, certain features of the program suggest that this is just the beginning of the creation of Trojan horses capable of attacking mobile phones.

For further information and details of the neutralization of SMS-Flooder, visit the Kasperksy website: http:// www.avp.ru.