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August 31st, 2005, 08:02 PM
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First serious outbreak of a mobile-phone virus in a company
Damn viruses, dopey users . . .
F-Secure security expert Patrick Runald said Tuesday that an outbreak of the Commwarrior.B virus occured at an unnamed Scandinavian company last Wednesday.
Commwarrior targets mobile phones that use the Symbian Series 60 operating system, and the bug spreads using Bluetooth and multimedia messaging technology, or MMS.
One of the employees at the company in question apparently received Commwarrior.B via, and then activated it by opening the program. "The virus then sent itself to every address in the address book; it was opened by more employees, who activated it, and it spread," Runald said.
Warnings that the messages did not come from a secure source were apparently ignored by employees.
http://news.com.com/F-Secure%20Commw...5021&subj=news
CNet.com :: August 31, 2005, 7:30 AM PDT
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