Mobile trojan whacks out premium SMS (Russia only)

Mobile Trojan horse tries to send premium rate SMS messages

Experts at SophosLabsâ„¢, Sophos’s global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have urged mobile phone owners not to panic following the discovery of the first cellphone malware that tries to make money.

It only applies to Russian language/Russian phones… surely someone can do a look-up on the shortcode that the trojan is using and find the source?

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