Botnet Trojan Got Through Symbian Foundation App Vetting Security Filters

I didn’t see much coverage about this (from CNET)…

Symbian admits Trojan slip-up

Here’s the bullet point version of CNET’s reasonably detailed article…

- Symbian vetting process digitally signs accepted submission to ID source for future interactioon
- Submitted app scanned using F-Secure (app disquised as ACSServer.exe)
- Random samples submitted for human audit process
- Botnet Trojan passed through this process
- Symbian Foundation became aware of the problem two weeks ago
- Digital signature for app revoked
- Error in Symbian servers allowed the app to be available for download until this week

Nasty stuff. Keep on your mobile toes, folks.

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