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2 items tagged "premium rate numbers"

Related tags: usa [+], technical nature [+], system phones [+], spammers [+], scammers [+], read [+], phone [+], may [+], malware [+], darknet [+], cybercrooks [+], china [+], call [+], black hat [+], able [+]

• December 20, 2011
• 10:51

  Cybercrooks May Be Able To Force Mobile Phones To Send Premium-Rate SMS Messages

   » ‎ Darknet
  There have been a few stories about this in the past, I recall China Facing Problems With Android Handsets & Pre-installed Trojans that were draining people’s batteries and phone credit by sending messages to premium-rate numbers. The latest news is of a more technical nature, but it outlines ways in which cybercrooks may well be [...]
  
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  Tags:  may cybercrooks able read china premium-rate-numbers darknet technical-nature spammers scammers  

• September 11, 2011
• 7:17

  [Slides] You will be billed $90,000 for this call

   » ‎ SecDocs
  Authors: Mikko Hypponen
  Tags: malware phone
  Event: Black Hat USA 2010
  Abstract: Computers do not have a built-in billing system. Phones do: it's called the phone bill. We have already seen the first examples of money-making malware that infects various types of smartphones. This talk will go into details of the currently known smartphone trojans that either place calls or send text messages to expensive premium-rate numbers. How does this work technically? Which platforms are at risk? What kind of premium-rate numbers are the criminals using? How do they route the money back to them without getting caught? And what can we do about this before it gets worse?

  Tags:  malware phone call usa premium-rate-numbers system-phones black-hat