SMS is currently in the same place email was about five to ten years ago. It’s an open system with no real filtering methods on place to stop spamming. Worse it doesn’t even have a real subject line by which you can determine whether to read or delete it. So it is hardly a surprise that some enterprising blackhat has created a Trojan horse program that uses infected PC’s to send SMS spam to unsuspecting mobile users in Russia.
This is going to be a growth “industry” before long, because e-mail SPAM is slowly reaching the point where it’s hardly worth the spammers effort. New laws and technologies are starting to make a dent in the spammers profit margin so you can bet they are looking at now markets to pester with Viagra and penis enlargement ads.
TheRegister has the story here.
Franki
