Bluetooth virus bites mobile phones
Cabir eats Symbian
By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 16 June 2004, 08:27
A NEW VIRUS that is designed to attack mobile phones has been
discovered in the wild.
Cabir, which distributes itself through Bluetooth connections,
attacks the Symbian operating system used by several maker of
mobiles, including the big one Nokia.
The virus was discovered by the French division of the Russian
security software developer Kaspersky Labs, who think it was
designed by an international band of hackers. The goal of the
hackers is to prove that no technology is safe from attacks.
If your phone is infected, the virus writes the inscription
'Caribe' on the screen. The virus is then activated every time that
the phone is turned on. It scans for phones that are also using the
Bluetooth technology and is able to send a copy of itself to the
first handset that it finds.
So far there does not seem to be any other negative payload.
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