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Pedro Bueno is a Security and Malware Researcher at McAfee Labs for almost 5 years. He also has a volunteer job at the SANS ...

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A new era for Mobile phone Virus writers?

Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 7:33am by Pedro Bueno
Pedro Bueno

So far, we are used to seeing news about some virus for mobile phones that would send SMS messages, steal contacts database, etc…

Yesterday Apple officially released their (cool) iPhone, and just recently I read about Nokia’s (also cool) N800 model. Why am I talking about these? Well, this time we are not talking about SymbianOS, GEOS or the Palm OS, but MAC OS X (on the iPhone) and Linux (on the N800). All models with full networking connections and with Wi-Fi. What I want to say is that we may find this biennial of 2007/2008 to be a new era of malware for mobile phones, complete with fully functional malwares, because of the same PC-based behavior and functionality…

So, stay tuned!

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  • Roy Bell January 25, 2007 1:06PM

    I’ve already had a virus wipe out my cell phone contents after I downloaded a ringtone from some 3rd party site. I took it back to the cell phone store and they fixed it, since it was locked up. They told me that it’s been happening a lot lately.

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