Security experts have found what they believe as the first botnet to mobile devices, which can give a threat to mobile phone. Expert researchers from the anti-malware company Trend Micro mengungakapkan in a blog post, that botnet attack akan Symbian-based mobile phone, with labels SYMBOS_YXES.B, which can be downloaded from the site mobile 'evil', who never suspected by the user.
An Information Source Symbian file capable mobile phone to gather information, customer ID and mobile phone network from the infected mobile device, and then connected to a website to send information. "In addition, malware SYMBOS_YXES.B can also send SMS spam to contact the user in order to connect to the website 'evil' is. In short, SMS spam is later akan botnet to attend as a mobile phone. "Said Jonathan Leopando, team Trend Micro technical communications.
While Rik Ferguson, senior security advisor at Trend Micro, predicted that in 2009 this will begin to appear at the phone botnet that has 3G access. "Botnet can collect data from mobile phone and restore it because the botnet should have a place for distribution. This is a marker of mobile malware. "Said Ferguson.
Ferguson also suggested that all corporate mobile devices have been protected with a firewall to block channels of communication with the sites' evil ', along with the protection of SMS spam, data encryption and URL filtering.
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