[NetBehaviour] Phone virus spreads through Scandinavian company

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*Phone virus spreads through Scandinavian company*
 
F-Secure says viruses are becoming more common in mobile phones

By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service
August 31, 2005

A mobile phone virus recently hit a small company in Scandinavia and 
spread from one handset to another, according to security vendor F-Secure

It was the first instance F-Secure has seen of a mobile virus making 
serious headway into an enterprise after showing up on an employee's 
phone, said Ero Carrera, an antivirus researcher at F-Secure, which is 
based in Helsinki, Finland. The outbreak lasted about a day as dozens of 
employees received the virus and about 20 of them opened it on their 
phones, causing it to spread, according to a Web log entry on F-Secure's 
site. F-Secure did not identify the company that experienced the 
outbreak or the country where it is based.

Viruses are becoming more common on mobile phones, but most people don't 
know that, which can help the viruses spread, Carrera said. The virus in 
this case, called Commwarrior.B, shows up as an attachment to an MMS 
(Multimedia Messaging Service) message or via Bluetooth. In an MMS, the 
user is asked if they want to open the attachment, and in Bluetooth they 
are asked if they want to accept it and then whether they want to run 
it. Mobile viruses typically identify themselves as something appealing, 
such as games or antivirus utilities.

more...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/08/31/HNphonevirus_1.html
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