F-secure Detected Two New Symbian Trojans

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Warnging! F-secure Detected Two New Symbian TrojansDrever.A is a SIS file trojan that tries to disable Simworks Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Locknut.B is a new variant of Locknut trojan family, which disables phone so that it can be disinfected only with special disinfection tool.

Locknut.B is a malicious SIS file trojan that pretends to be patch for Symbian Series 60 mobile phones. When installed Locknut.B drops a binary that will crash a critical System component, that will prevent any application from being launched in the phone. Thus effectively locking the phone.

Drever.A is a malicious SIS file trojan that disables the automatic startup from Simworks and Kaspersky Symbian Anti-Virus softwares. Currently it is still unverified whether either of these softwares have protection against such attacks.