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• » New mobile malware silently transfers account credit | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

  Note to self: Don’t buy a mobile phone in Indonesia…

  tags: mobile, malware

  • Kaspersky Lab today warned users of five newly found variants of the Trojan-SMS.Python.Flocker mobile malware, targeting an Indonesian mobile provider’s service allowing users to transfer money or minutes to each other’s accounts. SMS Python Flocker is a known mobile malware family, whose previous versions used to automatically send SMS message from the infected mobile device to premium-rate numbers operated by the malware authors.

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