Russian mobile users targeted by SMS Valentine Trojan

A Valentine’s Day mobile application, which promises to send an romantic MMS message to a loved one, actually hides a money-making scheme that sends expensive messages to a Russian premium rate SMS number.

Security experts have come across a downloadable file called love_mms.rar, which itself contains a Java Archive (.JAR) called jimm2010.jar.

It’s unlikely, of course, that anyone outside of the Russian-speaking world would be impacted by this malware, especially as its installation messages are impenetrable to most of us born in other countries:

Добро пожаловать! Вас приветствует мастер установки Jimm 2010! Нажмите “Да”, чтобы продолжить инсталяцию.

Установка Jimm Сейчас будет произведена установка приложения Jimm 2010 на Ваш мобильный телефон. Нажмите “Да” чтобы продолжить…

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