Is discovered the first in the world SMS- Trojan for Android-[smartfonov]

“The laboratory Of [kasperskogo]” revealed the first harmful program of the class Of trojan-SMS for [smartfonov] on the base Of google Of android - FakePlayer. In order to avoid infection by new Trojan, to users it suffices to be attentive, establishing on [smartfon] free [po].

New harmful program falls on Android-[smartfony] under the guise of the adjusting APK- file of [videopleera] by volume only less than 13 kilos-byte. If user agrees to its installation, Trojan penetrates the system and he begins to send away SMS- communications to the paid numbers without consent and agreements of owner. As a result from its calculation is removed the specific amount of money, which is transferred to the calculation of [kiberprestupnikov].

According to Denis [Maslennikova], team leader of a study of mobile threats “the laboratories Of [kasperskogo]”, then that the program suspicious, user can determine even without the aid of antiviral [po]. It suffices to focus attention on that, to what services requires the access Of fakePlayer at the moment of the installation: [vredonos], disguised under [videopleer], requests the permission to send SMS.

According to the data of analytical company IDC, among the producers of [smartfonov] precisely in the vendors of mobile devices under control OS Of android are observed the acceleration rates in sales. Forecasting an increase in the quantity of harmful programs, oriented to this platform, the specialists “of the laboratories Of [kasperskogo]” conduct the active development of the shielding technologies and solutions for this operating system. The tentative output Of kaspersky Of mobile Of security for OS Of android is planned to the first quarter of 2011.