Jun 13, 2007

It has been rather peaceful on the mobile malware front for the last six months, although mobile spyware and spying tools have been raising their heads lately. In May, F-Secure's research lab received samples of new mobile spying tools, running on Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 3rd Edition devices.

The mobile malware, that has been detected so far, is rather simple and usually made by hobbyists. Opposite to that, spyware is being developed by commercial companies that have a lot more resources, skills and motivation to get their creations to work.

It is fairly alarming to see increasingly complex mobile trojans and spyware being developed by growing commercial entities, making solid profits to support further development of the malicious economy.