Network operators may be keeping quiet on scale of problem
Iain Thomson at Infosecurity Europe 2007, vnunet.com26 Apr 2007
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Mobile viruses may be more prevalent than originally thought, according
to security
firm McAfee.
Speaking to
vnunet.com
at the
Infosecurity
show in London, Greg Day, European security analyst at McAfee, said that he
was alerted to the issue during an informal conversation with a major European
network operator at the show.
"I mentioned the lack of mobile viruses and he gave me a look and said we'll
see a lot more of them soon," said Day. "I asked him for some data but got a
'not on your life'."
Mobile viruses have been around in proof-of-concept for some years now. They
were first created by the Russian 29A hacking group and sent to antivirus
researchers.
Since then there has been little overt activity, and most outbreaks have been
limited because users have actively to accept the software onto their mobile
phones.
However, the nightmare scenario for network operators is a mobile worm that
damages phones or causes large numbers to dial premium rate numbers.
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