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Symbian trojan that sends another trojan over

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Very interesting pair of trojans
SymbOS/Onehop.A and SymbOS/Bootton.A

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F-secure have received samples of rather interesting pair of trojans SymbOS/Onehop.A and SymbOS/Bootton.A.

The Onehop.A is a trojan that disables most of built in applications and replaces them with a component that causes the device to reboot when executed. Basically this means that when user tries to execute any system application or press the menu button, the device will reboot.

In addition of damaging the phone, the Onehop.A also contains bluetooth functionality by which it searches the first phone it finds and sends the Bootton.A to that device. As the Onehop.A sends copy of Bootton.A not a.. ...

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Very interesting pair of trojans - full story
SymbOS/Onehop.A - Summary
SymbOS/Bootton.A - Summary

Sincerely yours,
Apocalypso