2004-06-17

The World's First Mobile Phone Virus: this is not a hoax

"The virus 'called Cabir - appears to have been developed by an Tchecho-Slovakian group specialising in creating viruses which try to show "that no technology is reliable and safe from their attacks"... until now it has had no harmful effect.' Cabir infects the Symbian operating system (runnning on a lot-millions- of Nokia phones, and spreads via bluetooth."

Whoah: how long 'till the first wave of phone-worms beaming away your location to counter-intel agencies...

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/15/2052227.shtml?tid=100&tid=126&tid=137&tid=172

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/epoc.cabir.html

Keywords: mobile phone virus, 29a, CABIR