Friday, June 11, 2010

Hackers plant viruses in Windows smartphone games

3D Anti-Terrorist and PDA Poker Art -- are available on sites that provide legitimate software for mobile devices, according to John Hering, CEO of San Francisco-based security firm Lookout.

Those games are bundled with malicious software that automatically dials premium-rate telephone services in Somalia, Italy and other countries, sometimes ringing up hundreds of dollars in charges in a single month.

Victims generally do not realize they have been infected until they get their phone bill and see hundreds of dollars of unexpected charges for those premium-rate services, he said. (more

FutureWatch - Expect this trend to continue. Un-vetted software apps (unlike Apple apps) are currently the easiest targets.