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Cabir Spotted In The US
News A version of the Cabir virus has turned up in two Nokia 6600s on display in a California mobile phone store, in what is believed to be the first "on-the-ground" sighting of the virus in the United States.
[February 21, 2005, 8:05]
Identify/React Chart: Cabir
White Papers The Cabir worm affects Symbian OS-based mobile phones running Nokia's Series 60 user interface and spreads via Bluetooth. The Identify/React chart for Cabir puts critical information for identifying and eliminating the worm right at your fingertips.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Skulls Trojan Teams Up With Cabir Worm
Talkback SimWorks has identified a new variant of the Camtimer/Cabir combo originally included in Skulls b, this time seperate from the Skulls trojan. The Cabir worm found in Skulls.b was packaged with an application called Camtimer, a piece of free Nokia...
[December 3, 2004, 6:14]
Australian Cabir Infestation Reported
News Is Cabir rife in Sydney's taxis? SimWorks claimed this was the "first documented Cabir infection in Australia". Although Wooldridge kept refusing the incessant messages, the Cabir worm still infected his handset.
[February 28, 2005, 8:30]
Cabir Spotted In The US
Talkback There is currently no known way to get a virus or worm onto these phones without user interaction.http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/cabir.shtml You do know that the user has to press two buttons to accept the worm, right?
[February 21, 2005, 13:41]
Australian Cabir Infestation Reported
Talkback It takes pushing the 'Yes' button twice to accept the warning messages to get this worm into your phone. I'll leave it to others to decide if that goes under the virus or stupidity headline.
[February 28, 2005, 12:47]
Australian Cabir Infestation Reported
Talkback Spotted 2 weeks ago in South West London in Tooting, while driving. Forgot to make phone hidden! Still, never accept messages from unknown people.
[March 4, 2005, 14:04]
Cabir Spotted In The US
Talkback Most people don't know what they're accepting. Probably that's how the virus has spread so far. Remember the days when people opened .pif files in emails, or even executables, when they were launching programes called dialer.exe?
[February 21, 2005, 15:54]
Cabir Spotted In The US
Talkback As I've written on my mobile security blog, http://securemyphone.blogspot.com, F-Secure is not the only antivirus company concerned about mobile viruses. Symantec has a whole list of mobile viruses, along with removal instructions for each, and...
[February 21, 2005, 10:26]
Skulls Trojan Teams Up With Cabir Worm
Talkback HAHA! I do find this incredibly funny.the more we make our cell phones act like computers, the more susceptible to infection they become. Being that I hate cell phones I do not own one and hterefore Am immune.
[November 30, 2004, 1:13]
Skulls Trojan Teams Up With Cabir Worm
News Virus writers have unleashed a second version of the morbid-looking Symbian Trojan 'Skulls' and packaged it with one of the first mobile phone viruses, dubbed Cabir. The resulting hybrid 'Skulls.B' displays images of skulls on Symbian handsets...
[November 29, 2004, 16:50]
CommWarrior Guns For Nokias
News Antivirus researchers are investigating a new Trojan horse that could prove to be a more pervasive threat to mobile phones than Cabir. CommWarrior attempts to spread by sending messages via Bluetooth wireless connections and Multimedia Message...
[March 8, 2005, 8:00]
Smartphone Virus Threat Grows
News A security firm has warned that the Cabir mobile phone virus is becoming more of a threat as more variants emerge. Earlier versions of Cabir, which spreads through phones running the Symbian operating system and Bluetooth wireless technology, won...
[December 29, 2004, 9:15]
Smartphone Virus Code Published Online
News A security firm reported on Wednesday that the source code of the Cabir mobile phone virus is now available online. This follows Tuesday's warning that a number of variants of the Cabir worm have been detected, which have evolved beyond its...
[December 30, 2004, 11:05]
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. However, the car maker denied reports that the operating system is made by Symbian -- which is known...
[February 18, 2005, 8:25]
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]
'Concept Virus' Little Threat To Smartphones
News As previously reported, the so-called Cabir worm is written for the Symbian operating system, the OS used in a majority of smartphones -- devices that combine the features of a cellphone and a personal digital assistant.
[June 16, 2004, 9:25]
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]
Bluetooth Viruses Pose Growing Threat
Talkback One week later, my father had the same sort of message called ''cabir.exe'' but he accepted it. when the phone is switched on it comes up with a message 'cabir.exe'' and you only have the option of selecting OK.
[February 5, 2005, 20:24]
First Virus Targets Windows CE
News The same as the creators of Cabir (the virus for Symbian OS), the initiator has not designed it to propagate on a massive scale but rather to demonstrate that devices running Microsoft Windows CE can be infected by malicious code," Viorel Canja of...
[July 19, 2004, 8:35]
