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2005/04/05

Virus per cellulari, arriva il terzo, basato su MMS

Text me and I'll reply with a virus | The Register: "Virus writers have created a third mobile phone virus capable of replicating via MMS messages. The Mabir worm, which targets Symbian Series 60 phones... is essentially a variant of the Cabir worm, which spreads only over Bluetooth, with added MMS functionality... F-Secure suggests that Mabir-A is based on the same source code as Cabir and is likely the product of the same coder... When Mabir-A activates it will search for the first Bluetooth phone it finds, and start sending copies of itself to that phone.

The MMS spreading function of Mabir-A uses a new social engineering technique. Instead of just reading all phone numbers from the local address book..., Mabir-A [sends] an infected MMS message in reply to any SMS or MMS messages sent to an infected phone."