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Year-old Bluetooth vulnerability invites mobile worm
News For the past year, mobile phone vendors have been trying to fix several Bluetooth security vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to create an MSBlast-type worm that spreads from handset to handset without any user intervention.
[August 3, 2004, 13:40]
Lexus denies in-car virus claims
News Car maker Lexus has denied that the Cabir wireless worm poses a risk to the Bluetooth-capable navigation systems featured in some of its vehicles. Cabir, the first worm known to target smartphones, uses Bluetooth to detect other Symbian phones, and...
[February 18, 2005, 8:25]
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]
Australian Cabir infestation reported
News Although Wooldridge kept refusing the incessant messages, the Cabir worm still infected his handset. The taxi driver complained that the worm has been an inconvenience since it drained the phone's battery very quickly.
[February 28, 2005, 8:30]
Mobile phone virus doubles the danger
News The program also acts like a computer worm, attempting to copy itself directly to any phone within range using Bluetooth wireless technology, F-Secure said. That capability is similar to several recent worms -- variants of the Cabir worm -- that...
[January 11, 2005, 8:05]
Criminal hackers reach beyond Windows and IE review
Reviews Last summer, someone released the Cabir worm, designed to infect Symbian OS-equipped Nokia series 60 smartphones. Since the start of this year, the Cabir worm has been reported in nearly two dozen countries, including the United States.
[March 22, 2005, 7:50]
Bluetooth viruses pose growing threat
News One of the real surprises of 2004 was the appearance of Cabir, the first worm that affected cell phones," said a Panda Software spokesman. The Cabir worm was discovered in June 2004 after a copy was sent to antivirus companies by the group that had...
[January 5, 2005, 13:25]
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Downloads You can manually or automatically scan both principle and peripheral memory locations including memory cards therefore offering a complete and powerful protection.Latest Virus NewsNew Mobile Worm Spreads itself through MMS (Multimedia Messaging...
[December 13, 2004, 7:00]
Smartphone virus code published online
News The worm affects phones running the Symbian operating system that use Bluetooth wireless technology. This follows Tuesday's warning that a number of variants of the Cabir worm have been detected, which have evolved beyond its comparatively benign...
[December 30, 2004, 11:05]
OS X under attack
News The worm uses a Bluetooth attack vector (input validation vulnerability) to spread. Symantec says that Intel-based systems are subject to damage from the worm but won't allow it to spread. The second malware threat is actually only a test version...
[March 1, 2006, 12:55]
Is Apple's security honeymoon over?
News Finisterre created the Inqtana worm, which targets Mac OS X and spreads using an 8-month-old vulnerability in Apple's Bluetooth software. Finisterre did not release his worm into the wild. So far, there have been no reports of any Mac systems...
[March 1, 2006, 10:20]
Virus reignites mobile malware squabble
News F-Secure has denied overplaying the threat posed by mobile malware after the Finnish antivirus vendor issued information about a new mobile worm. The warning, released last week, claimed that the worm — Commwarrior Q — affects smartphones running...
[August 8, 2006, 13:45]
F-Secure: Inside the cage
News On the map, every IP address shows the location of a machine infected with the Blaster worm. Inside the cage was a collection of Symbian-based smartphones infected with a piece of Bluetooth malware called "Cabir".
[September 28, 2007, 17:25]
Latest smart phone virus targets Symbian
News The worm, dubbed Mabir.A, appears to be a variant of the Cabir virus -- recognised by security experts as the first smartphone virus. Security firm F-Secure reported on Monday that Mabir.A, like Cabir, can spread to another phone with an open...
[April 6, 2005, 18:05]
Month of Apple bugs planned
News In early 2006 he wrote a proof-of-concept worm that spread between OS X machines via a Bluetooth vulnerability. Apple's reputation for offering greater security than rival operating systems such as Windows will come under the spotlight in January.
[December 20, 2006, 14:44]
Skulls Trojan teams up with Cabir worm
News The resulting hybrid 'Skulls.B' displays images of skulls on Symbian handsets instead of the program icons that should be there and also releases the Cabir worm. When infected with Cabir, a phone displays the word "Caribe" on the screen as the worm...
[November 29, 2004, 16:50]
'Concept virus' little threat to smartphones
News A recently created "concept virus" designed to show that a worm could spread between smart phones won't get very far in the real world, antivirus companies said on Tuesday. As previously reported, the so-called Cabir worm is written for the Symbian...
[June 16, 2004, 9:25]
Symbian worm in the wild
Blog There aren't that many out there, but there's a new Symbian worm in town. According to antivirus company F-Secure, what makes this Symbian worm different is that it attempts to propagate using common media file extensions, rather than standard SIS...
[January 25, 2008, 17:25]
Apple flaw targeted by exploit code
News Earlier this year, Finisterre created the Inqtana worm, which targets Mac OS X and spreads using an eight-month-old vulnerability in Apple's Bluetooth software. Attack code that exploits a flaw in Apple’s Mac OS X was publicly released on Wednesday...
[June 30, 2006, 10:00]
Nokia to secure high-end phones
News In June, a worm program called Cabir emerged as a major security threat to smart phones that run the Symbian OS. Additionally, in July, Nokia released a software upgrade for its Bluetooth-enabled phones that are vulnerable to what is called...
[August 25, 2004, 11:35]
