maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - 2010 sees large scale increase in smartphone trojans

	ysss	2011-01-31 , 05:05
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Virus self-replicates without the user's intervention by exploiting OS/apps vulnerabilities.

Trojan requires the user to trigger execution of its payload, generally disguised as something benign.

All OS (including Linux) are vulnerable to trojans, if the user is duped to run the infected binary.

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