Mobile threats

Today, Cabir celebrates its first birthday. One year ago, 29a sent a sample of their latest creation to AV vendors worldwide via Virusbuster, a Spanish virus collector.

Kaspersky Lab presents an overview of malware evolution in the first quarter of 2005.

There’s recently been a lot of noise about a new trojan for mobile phones. The new malware affects certain types of mobile devices, making it impossible to use them to make telephone calls.

Cabir in the UK

Removal tool cleans Cabir, Lasco and Skuller

More users report Cabir infections

First documented infection in Russia

Analysis of the new virus mentioned in the previous posting showed that it’s a SymbianOS worm, based on Cabir source code, that spreads itself via BlueTooth. It also has a file infection functionality.

We have just received a new virus for SymbianOS mobile phones directly from its author. The is an interesting speciment because it is the first known SIS-files infector.

MP3 players carrying malware

Code for mobile virus now on the Internet

Cabir.e does not threaten users so far.

This month’s analysis of trends in malware evolution, from the Kaspersky Labs Virus Laboratory