CommWarrior mobile virus hits UK

June 30, 2005

29.06.2005 13:04:28

F-Secure has reported the first sighting of CommWarrior in the UK, after a holidaymaker managed to get their phone infected while sailing in the Mediterranean

The United Kingdom has become the fifteenth country to be witness an infection by the CommWarrior mobile phone virus, security experts claimed on Tuesday.

According to security firm F-Secure, a British citizen’s mobile phone fell victim to the CommWarrior virus during a holiday earlier this year. The unsuspecting holidaymaker returned home, and only discovered the infection some weeks later.

“The user actually got infected while sailing in the Mediterranean,” said Patrick Runald, senior antivirus consultant. “She repeatedly said no to accepting the message, but it kept trying so eventually she accepted it.”

CommWarrior targets mobile phones that use the Symbian Series 60 operating system, and spreads either over Bluetooth or as an MMS. The user infected in the Mediterranean was infected over Bluetooth, presumably by another infected user nearby.

More info can be found at :

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39205921,00.htm

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