Mabir.A mobile bug’s skills
p2pnet.net News:- Finland’s F-Secure says the Mabir.A mobile bug – basically, Cabir with added MMS functionality – uses a new social engineering technique.
“Instead of just reading all phone numbers from the local address book, the Mabir.A listens for any SMS or MMS messages that arrive to the phone,” says F-Secure research director Mikko Hypponen on the company’s blog.
When a message arrives, Mabir sends itself as MMS message to the sending phone number, “Thus posing as a reply to whatever message was sent to the infected phone.”
Mabir.A spreads using bluetooth using the same routine as early variants of Cabir, says Hypponen. When it activates, it searches for the first bluetooth phone it finds and starts sending copies of itself to that phone.
“If the phone Mabir finds goes out of range, the Mabir.A still seems to be locked on that.”
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F-Secure - Description of Mabir.A published, April 4, 2005
April 4th, 2005 at 5:15 pm
oh yes. bluetooth is wonderful.
April 4th, 2005 at 6:32 pm
not that I like viruses etc.
still pretty good idea…
I cant wait till 2010 when my e-fridge get a virus infection… hehe
April 5th, 2005 at 2:48 am
yeah, where are all those ANONYMOUS COWARDS who, last month, lambasted me on my articles about bluetooth, the bluetooth rifle, internet fridges, GPS, etc. now?
so here is even more proof in the form of a bluetooth virus that once again proves how open, unsecure and stupid bluetooth is.
sure – get yourself microchipped “against terrorism”. but make sure it has bluetooth, GPS, and electrodes connected to your nerve-endings so if you get kidnapped by terrorists you can send farewell emails and send yourself a brain-activated virus that will make you self destruct before the terrorists can kill you on live tv.
you’ll even have a chance to order flower arrangements for your own funeral, as well as have your fridge stock up on food for the wake.
and this is all thanks to the wonderful invention of bluetooth. thank you IBM – for nothing. we really don’t need another useless piece of garbage. next time you have a brilliant idea that you believe will revolutionize daily life, keep it to yourself.