New Cell Phone Virus Jumps to PCs

By Nate Mook | Published September 22, 2005, 3:20 PM

European security firm F-Secure on Wednesday detailed a new mobile phone trojan that attacks Symbian based phones with a new trick: the potential to jump to a PC if the phone's memory card is inserted into a computer. Cardtrap.A actually contains a payload of two Windows worms, Win32/Padobot.Z and Win32/Rays.

Padobot.Z attempts to copy itself using an autorun.inf file. However, the threat is minimal, F-Secure says. "To our knowledge, no Windows version supports autorun from a memory card, but it still might work with some Windows version and third party driver combination," said F-Secure researcher Jarno Niemela.

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Yet more scaremongering from F-Secure...

They fail to mention the convoluted process you have to go through to even "install" this so-called virus on your Symbian (Series 60 ONLY) phone!

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The more technology you use the more open you are to attacks - and surveillance . . .

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