Security experts are monitoring the spread of the first mobile phone virus that uses Mobile Messaging Service (MMS) to circulate among mobile phone users with Symbian Series 60 mobile phones. The ...
Just last month, security researchers at SonicWall Capture Labs discovered malicious apps masquerading as Google, Instagram, WhatsApp, and X (formerly Twitter). These fake apps can inadvertently be ...
A new Symbian Trojan horse called Doomboot.A has been found which loads the virus CommWarrior.B onto Symbian Series 60 smartphones. CommWarrior.B generates enough Bluetooth traffic to drain the ...
Mobile phones infected with the Cabir virus have turned up in Japan and France, according to antivirus software company F-Secure of Helsinki. The new infections bring the number of countries where ...
"We've had no reports of people actually seeing these viruses in their daily use," said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant with London's Sophos PLC. "The only reports we've seen documented ...
A mobile phone virus recently hit a small company in Scandinavia and spread from one handset to another, according to security vendor F-Secure Corp. It was the first time F-Secure has seen a mobile ...
Antivirus company Kaspersky Labs Ltd. said today that it discovered what is believed to be the first computer virus capable of spreading over mobile-phone networks. Cabir is a network worm that ...
A new breed of security threat is taking shape, targeting cell phones and other mobile devices. Though these viruses and hacker attacks are still in their infancy, solution providers and vendors alike ...
I usually don’t blog about anything to do with technology, as I leave that in the very capable hands of my fellow IW blogger (and Wrath of Kahn aficionado) Greg G., but this is just outright bizarre, ...
The world's first mobile phone virus "in the wild" has spread to the United States from its birthplace in the Philippines eight months ago, a security research firm said on Friday. The virus, called ...