Skulls Trojan puts on antivirus mask
By Joris Evers
A new variant of the Skulls Trojan horse for cell phones is trying to trap victims by posing as antivirus software, F-Secure has warned.
The Skulls Trojan horse, which affects Symbian-based cell phones, first surfaced in November. This latest Skulls.L variant is similar to Skulls.C, the only difference being that it's disguised as a pirated copy of F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus, the Finnish antivirus maker said in an alert posted Thursday.
Like earlier versions, the new Trojan attempts to disable system applications and replace their icons with images of skulls. It also drops two versions of the Cabir worm on the device. The worms aren't activated until the user clicks on their icons, F-Secure said.