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whitepaper The virus, called Cabir, has spread slowly into 12 countries and marks the beginning of the mobile phone virus era, which could one day disrupt the lives of many of the world's 1.5 billion mobile phone users.
[09 Jun 2006]
News Almost two years on, F-Secure's chief research officer Mikko Hyppönen reports that although there are now more than 200 mobile phone viruses - many of which are variants of Cabir - the problem is unlikely to get as bad as it has with PCs.
[30 May 2006]
whitepaper 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.
[25 May 2006]
News Pbstealer tries to send the user's address book, notepad content, calendar and task list to other Bluetooth devices while Cdropper attempts to install versions of the Cabir and Locknut viruses on the mobile device, according to Symantec.
[23 Jan 2006]
Photo Inside the vault, Jarno Niemelä, senior antivirus researcher, launches versions of Cabir on Nokia handsets, in the hope that other people won't make the same mistake by understanding these rarely seen viruses more closely and observing them spread.
[12 Sep 2005]
News F-Secure told silicon.com it is seeing instances every week of mobile phone viruses such as CommWarrior and Cabir in the wild and, although such reports are few and far between, Runald argues that publicising the issue at such an early stage is...
[02 Sep 2005]
Round-Up The first mobile phone virus, Cabir, has spread to more than 20 countries, ranging from the United States to Japan and from Finland to South Africa, using only Bluetooth. Bravo for Bill Gates! No, really.
[12 Aug 2005]
News It also drops two versions of the Cabir worm on the device. A new variant of the Skulls Trojan horse for mobile phones is trying to trap victims by posing as antivirus software, F-Secure has warned. The Skulls Trojan horse, which affects Symbian...
[13 Jun 2005]
News Technicians at F-Secure have 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.
[10 May 2005]
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...
[08 Mar 2005]
News Automaker 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...
[18 Feb 2005]
News In order to stop malware along the lines of smart phone virus Cabir, Symbian has restricted an app's ability to access data and services it shouldn't. Symbian has launched the latest version of its smart phone operating system, promising stronger...
[02 Feb 2005]
News Some mobile phone viruses already exist, such as Cabir and Skulls which spread by Bluetooth and infect handsets based on the Symbian operating system. Antivirus companies are researching reports that computer viruses have attacked the onboard...
[26 Jan 2005]
News The Cabir smart phone virus was originally developed by a group that is renowned for making concept viruses but later made it into the wild, albeit in a limited fashion. Code that reveals how a flaw Apple's iTunes software can be hacked is now out...
[18 Jan 2005]
News That capability is similar to several recent worms -- variants of the Cabir worm -- that have managed to spread to a limited amount of phones in the wild. Mobile phone viruses, largely considered a paper tiger in the digital security world, became...
[11 Jan 2005]
News A later version was packaged with the mobile phone virus Cabir. A new variant of the Skulls Trojan horse that affects Symbian mobile phones has been discovered. F-Secure reported on Monday that this new version, called Skulls.D, kills off all...
[07 Jan 2005]
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...
[29 Dec 2004]
News The attack also installs a version of the Cabir virus, which spreads through the Bluetooth short-range wireless protocol, the firm said. If the user opens the fake MetalGear program, Cabir will run and try to use Bluetooth to reach other phones...
[22 Dec 2004]
News It also releases the Cabir.B worm, the company said. Cabir, which asks its victims if they would like to be infected, was thought to be a proof-of-concept virus when it was released earlier this year.
[30 Nov 2004]
News Suchkov, who went under the pseudonym 'whale', was part of the Russian virus writing gang 29A, whose other virus writing antics include creating the proof of concept code for the first mobile phone virus, Cabir.
[19 Nov 2004]
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