Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 2 Mar 2006 8:33 am |
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First Cell-Phone Java Trojan on the Loose
Alerts went out Tuesday from several security companies warning users
of an in-the-wild Trojan horse able to infect nearly any cell phone.
The Trojan, named Redbrowser.a by McAfee, F-Secure, and the
discovering vendor Kaspersky Labs, can attack any device - smart
phone, PDA, or cell phone - that runs Java 2 Micro Edition, Sun
Microsystem's version for consumer electronics devices.
Most anti-virus vendors, including Kaspersky, have labeled Redbrowser.a as a low-level threat. "There's no global outbreak going on," said Coursen.
But it is, he said, another indicator that malicious code writers are expanding into mobile territory. "We are finding that there are mobile viruses out there," he said, "and I believe we're moving toward a real threat."
Kaspersky, F-Secure, and McAfee all sell products aimed at protecting mobile users from worms, viruses, and Trojans.
Source:
InformationWeek
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