The first virus appears on SMS

The security report of the first quarter of 2009 by Finnish security software company F-Secure has announced a worm called SymbOS / Yxe, which was recorded primarily in China but signaled a potential risk in many places. other .

Distributed in SMS messages with decoys of sex images, the virus inserts a link to a malicious website, enticing users to download the attack software. It then takes advantage of the contacts on the victim's phone to continue spreading.

" This is the first mobile text message virus that can trick the signature check feature used to protect new phones ," said the director of research at F-Secure Mikko. Hypponen said. " The purpose behind this program might be to gather information for spam on mobile phones ."