New Symbian trojan that drops Commwarrior.B and disables the phone

Posted by admin on 5/Jun/2009 in Trojans | 0 comments

Another article from the security pros at F-Secure outlines another Symbian trojan, Doomboot.A. Doomboot.A pretends to be a pirate copied Symbian game. People who don’t download and install pirate copied games or applications are safe from nasty surprises, but lots of people do.

If the users phone runs out of battery or user switches off the phone, the phone can be recovered with a special hard format key combination. The actual phone hardware is not damaged by the trojan, but formatting the phone loses all data.

You can read the full blog post here.