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CommWarrior Guns For Nokias
News CommWarrior attempts to spread by sending messages via Bluetooth wireless connections and Multimedia Message Service - different from the Cabir virus, which only used Bluetooth to proliferate. As MMS messages can be sent worldwide, CommWarrior has...
[March 8, 2005, 8:00]
Australian Cabir Infestation Reported
News Wooldridge said that other taxi drivers were also suffering from the impact of the same virus with their Bluetooth-capable phones. He said since taxi drivers used Bluetooth headsets while driving, they were very susceptible to the virus.
[February 28, 2005, 8:30]
CommWarrior Mobile Virus Hits UK
News CommWarrior targets mobile phones that use the Symbian Series 60 operating system, and spreads either over Bluetooth or as an MMS. The user infected in the Mediterranean was infected over Bluetooth, presumably by another infected user nearby.
[June 28, 2005, 17:05]
Company Struck Down By CommWarrior
News The operator at the company disabled MMS temporarily and Bluetooth was also disabled, which prevented the spread of the virus. CommWarrior targets mobile phones that use the Symbian Series 60 operating system, and spreads over Bluetooth and as an...
[August 31, 2005, 9:40]
Car Virus Rumours Crushed
News Technicians at F-Secure announced on Monday they had quashed rumours that mobile phone viruses could spread to cars via Bluetooth, after failing to infect the onboard computer of a Toyota Prius with the mobile phone virus Cabir.
[May 9, 2005, 17:55]
Security Firm Probes Reports Of Car Viruses
News Many Lexus cars include a navigation system that can connect to a mobile phone over Bluetooth to allow hands-free calls, and Kaspersky believes that Bluetooth could be used to transmit a virus to a car's GPS navigation system.
[January 26, 2005, 13:35]
Mobile Phone Virus Doubles The Danger
News As the new virus can only spread on mobile phones that have Bluetooth in discoverable mode, the best way to protect handset systems is to set it to hidden Bluetooth mode, F-Secure has advised. The program also acts like a computer worm, attempting...
[January 11, 2005, 8:05]
Bluetooth Viruses Pose Growing Threat
News The Cabir virus spreads itself to new devices by using the Bluetooth wireless short-range protocol, although it can be prevented by turning off a phone's 'discoverable' mode. Hyppönen believes that Bluetooth-enabled laptops are likely to be...
[January 5, 2005, 13:25]
Smartphone Users 'aware Of The Growing Threat'
News Cabir, the most widely reported smartphone virus, is able to spread itself via Bluetooth technology. About 32 percent said they use Bluetooth. Over the last year, a number of threats designed specifically to attack smartphones have emerged...
[April 29, 2005, 9:15]
F-Secure: Inside The Cage
News Once a smartphone is infected, the virus then attempts to infect another phone within range that has Bluetooth enabled in discoverable mode. Inside the cage was a collection of Symbian-based smartphones infected with a piece of Bluetooth malware...
[September 28, 2007, 17:25]
Smartphones Targeted By Worm
News The worm program, dubbed Cabir by Russian antivirus company Kaspersky, apparently uses the Bluetooth short-range wireless feature of smartphones that run the Symbian operating system to detect other Symbian phones, and then transfers itself to the...
[June 15, 2004, 8:40]
Trend Micro Updates Smartphone Antivirus
News So even though proof-of concept malware such as Cabir (which spreads through Bluetooth) and CommWarrior (which spreads via Bluetooth and MMS) exist, it would be relatively easy to keep such malware from invading a smartphone.
[November 2, 2005, 14:00]
CeBIT 2000: What's Hot At This Year's Show
News The show has progressed somewhat since last year when Bluetooth was hyped as the hot technology. Unfortunately that turned into a bit of a damp squib as the funkiest Bluetooth gadgets turned out to be hands free units for mobiles.
[February 21, 2000, 8:50]
Roundup: Networks Telecom, Without The Wires
News Psion signs Bluetooth deal with Compaq Tue, 27th Jun Psion said Tuesday it would provide US computer giant Compaq with Bluetooth, a new technology designed to do away with all wires bar the power line
[June 28, 2000, 15:32]
Latest Smart Phone Virus Targets Symbian
News Security firm F-Secure reported on Monday that Mabir.A, like Cabir, can spread to another phone with an open Bluetooth connection. Symbian is looking into reports of a new mobile phone virus that targets smartphones running its operating system.
[April 6, 2005, 18:05]
Bluetooth Phones At Risk From 'snarfing'
Talkback My Bluetooth is not working It has some sort of virus that came in to my phone via a message and installed itself as an application , it show's up as CARIBE SIS when the phone is powered up . If my bluetooth is turned on it attacks other phone's...
[May 24, 2005, 14:01]
CommWarrior Guns For Nokias
Talkback The phone has problem of restarting automatically when i turn of the bluetooth. And got commwarrior virus. I just bought nokia 6680. I had not connected the phone previously to the PC.But when I tried ,I was not able to transfer files (photos,audio...
[October 1, 2006, 19:57]
CommWarrior Mobile Virus Hits UK
Talkback I ACTUALLY BOUGHT A NEARLY NEW SYMBIAN 60 MOBILE PHONE FROM SOMEONE ON EBAY IN MAYAND AFTER SWAPPING A FEW FILES TO MY PC VIA BLUETOOTH MY PC ANTIVIRUS PICKED UP COMM WARRIOR A VIRUS. I READ WITH INTEREST OF THE FIRST REPORTED CASE OF COMM WARRIOR...
[June 29, 2005, 15:50]
Bluetooth Viruses Pose Growing Threat
Talkback hey theres a new virus called fuyuan.sis that is automatically transfered to your mobile phone by by bluetooth.it drains down your battery and will automatically send to any other mobile with bluetooth turned on, on the phone.i think that it is...
[March 25, 2005, 19:24]
Bluetooth Phones At Risk From 'snarfing'
Talkback i seemed to have picked it up on my nokia handset via bluetooth. Has anyone heard of a virus called calibe? At first menu's bring up blank screens, then it drains battery power and eventually shuts down phone.
[March 2, 2005, 15:12]
