SYMBOS_FLOCK.I – Where Does It Come From?

[Peaches]

Jul2

SYMBOS_FLOCK.I – Where Does It Come From?

Yesterday we blogged about a new piece of Symbian malware, which we detected as SYMBOS_FLOCK.I. This malware targets users of older Series 60 devices.

Overall, the malware itself is very simple in its operation. It first prompts the user to install an application called ZvirOK 5.2!. The name here suggested there are previous versions of this malware in existence (that, or it took the malware writer at least 5 attempts to get it right). Alternatively, the malware author wanted us to think that this is a legitimate application, and added the version number to make it appear as such.

Full details here: http://blog.trendmicro.com/