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Android premium rate SMS Trojans (aka toll fraud) is nothing new in Russia but typically it is distributed via fake Android marketplaces or unofficial app stores. In conjunction with one of our carriers customers we investigated malware that was promoted via SMS. In this attack spammers were targeting Russian consumers with a social engineering campaign that sent out tens of thousands of SMS with links to a website hosting mobile malware.

A recent spam attack in several countries shows the extent of localisation that spammers are willing to go to, and also what we may expect in the future.

As an Internet Watch Foundation member we'd like to encourage everyone to support IWF Awareness Day by spreading the word about how the public can report online sexual abuse material to the IWF.

With the recent announcement of an iPhone Spoofing exploit, there has been a lot of misinformed debate over the severity and the source of the error. Here we give the detail on the technology behind this exploit, and why we should not be so quick to blame mobile operators for it.

Jonny Brown discusses the unchartered waters of NFC and mobile payments and why they require mobile operators to think about the dangers that lurk below.