Sunday, October 2, 2011

Android Trojan via QR-Code

Android Trojan via QR-Code

Attacking a method described in early September, smartphones via QR Code
("Attagging"), is now used to install a Trojan on Android devices. The
reports of the Secure Channel Blog Kasperky Anti-virus company. Thus,
there exists a QR code that supposedly will download the package jimm.apk.

Behind the specified URL with the code but put a redirect to another
website, the downloading of the smartphone, the Android software. This
version of the ICQ client Jimm is infected with the
Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.Jifake.f, the more expensive $ 6 each SMS send to a
Russian premium service. Other sites, the Kaspersky report would offer,
written in Java by Trojans also on QR code.

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