Summer 2004 – The first real Handy-Virus has been discovered
The Handy-Virus Cabir has infected in summer 2004 the first handies. The modern Handy has a lot more abilities as aces E-mail, word-processing documents and spreadsheets and to tap into enterprise application .Thise handies use an operating system.The first worm has attacked the Nokia handies of the series Nokia 3650,7650 and N-Gage with the Symbian OS. A wide range of phone from a number of manufacturer use this technology. However,any handset running Symbian OS is potentially vulnerable to infection.
The Cabir worm only infects mobile phones which support bluetooth. The Cabir Virus is observable on the start of the handy.For a short time „Cabir “ is written to the display.
The Cabir Virus is activated by opening the infected file. Cabir replicate over bluetooth and arrive to phone messaging inbox as caribe.sis file. This file contains the worm. If the file isactivated then the worm starts looking for new device to infect over bluetooth.
Damages:
The damage of Cabir is the infection and therefore additional power consumption.
Prevention:
Remove the worm.
For further information see:
http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=149499226
