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"Sexy View" Smartphone malware


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Sexy View is a social engineering worm which uses the user device's contact list to spread. It sends a text message to all contact with a link to a web site that install a malicious application that shares the phone's information such as phone serial number to the virus creators.

F-Secure's Chief Research Officer said that it is the first mobile phone worm and this worm is to collect information for phone spamming purposes.

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