Cell Phone Virus

[Kevin A.]

I just saw this on the tv news. I did a google search for "caribe cell
phone virus" and got the following:

First cell phone virus in US
Newsday, NY - 20 hours ago
... Symbian, a company whose cell phone operating system is
susceptible, said Vallez's motive was likely to ... The phone would then
display text Caribe-VZ/29A ...
Cell phone worm Red Herring
Cabir virus spreads in US cell phones RealEstateGates.com
Cabir mobile phone virus hits the US VNUNet.com
Boost Marketing - Java Developer's Journal - all 66 related »
The mobile virus threat
Red Herring, CA - Feb 1, 2005
... worm, named "Cabir," which causes an infected phone to display
"Caribe!" and then ... From a hacker perspective, cell phones are small
potatoes ... Phone numbers ...

Cabir Hits US
InternetNews.com - Feb 16, 2005
... OS distribution file) and disguised as a Caribe Security Manager
.... in the operating systems of new phone shipments. ... F-Secure estimates
20 million cell phones use ...

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[Gabriele Neukam]

On that special day, Kevin A., ([email protected]) said...

First cell phone virus in US

Well, it's been around for eight months, so it is nothing new. It was
meant as a PoC, and made its way very slowly across the countries, as it
has to wait for yet another Nokia phone that comes close enough
(Bluetooth connection, and not in stealth mode) to be infected. Its
origin may be the Philippines.

And it infects only if you say OK thrice - once to acknowledge the
reception of the message, once to install the unsafe .SIS, and once for
the installment and reboot. So, whoever caught it, did actually help a
lot in the distribution of this thing.

It may be that the cell phones of international flight passengers spread
the virus to foreign countries.

You can read all this in one document. Unfortunately, it is in German.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/56662


Gabriele Neukam

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