Mobile threats

One of the most notable malicious programs during the first half of 2008 was, undoubtedly, the Storm worm (classified by Kaspersky Lab as Zhelatin). It remains in the vanguard of Malware 2.0.

We came across some interesting mobile phone software yesterday. It’s designed for the J2ME platform for mobiles and it’s a midlet with a Kaspersky Anti-Virus icon

Our annual report on malware evolution in 2007, published a few months ago, contained forecasts on how the threat landscape would evolve in 2008

This annual report provides an overview the evolution of malware, adware and potentially malicious programs in 2007, and compares this data to that of 2006.

This quarterly report may be the most unusual of all of our previous quarterly reports. The events that took place during the first six months of 2007 have shown us that the direction in which threats are evolving is from social engineering to the increased usage of a variety of vulnerabilities to penetrate the system

This week’s been an interesting one in the world of mobile malware. We detected three variants of a new Trojan for mobile phones, Trojan-SMS.SymbOS.Viver

The one that didn’t get away

Strangers on a train

Do you think that installing Linux on an iPod is a waste of time? If you work in an anti-virus company it’s not – you’re preparing the device to play with the first known virus for iPod.

This report examines the evolution of malicious programs for mobile devices during the course of 2006.

A few thoughts

Kaspersky Lab presents the latest quarterly report on malware evolution

Tracking mobile malware proves interesting

The second part of Kaspersky Lab’s latest report provides an overview of mobile malware epidemics and flaws in mobile operating systems

This first part of this latest report from the Kaspersky Virus Lab examines the evolution of malware for mobile devices