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Last week we attended Insomni’Hack 2011, where our Crypto Girl (Axelle Apvrille) presented  on mobile phone threats. Debriefing of the conference  may be found here and there. Both blog authors highlighted the main goal of Axelle’s talk, which was to raise awareness about existing threats on smartphones. Mobile phones had already been targeted for a [...]

Is Symbian still the leader for smartphone operating systems or not? How far have Android and iPhones penetrated the market? Who’s the leader for smartphone OS: Symbian? BlackBerry? Android? iPhone? A quick search on Internet provides quite opposite results, and I decided to find out why. There is no official definition of what a smartphone [...]

Zitmo is a mobile malware Fortinet has particularly been focusing on since the beginning (see our first blog post and my presentation at ShmooCon 2011) as it is one of the first palpable signs organized criminals show interest in infecting mobile phones. As you may know (see F-Secure and Kaspersky‘s blog posts), it is unfortunately [...]

Our analyst, Ruchna Nigam, had been analyzing a sample of SymbOS/InSpirit.A!tr. A couple of months ago, this malware received some attention in China (for example see here – use translation if you do not speak Chinese) because it was phishing an area bank. The malware simply added a new SMS in the victim’s inbox, apparently [...]

An Internet Access Point, shortened IAP, is a “a collection of settings that define how a connection to a particular network is made” [1]. For example, it stores the Access Point Name (APN) for GPRS networks, the SSID for Wifi etc. On Symbian mobile phones, IAPs are stored in a table of the Communication Database. [...]