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December 28, 2004

New Cabir worms for your mobile phone


CellPhones

Cabir.H and Cabir.I the latest variants of the Cabir worm were detected yesterday. The new Cabir variants spread on handsets using a specially formatted Symbian operating system distribution (or SIS) file disguised as a security management utility. The worm modifies the Symbian operating system so that Cabir is started each time the phone is turned on.

Infected mobile phones scan for vulnerable phones using a Bluetooth wireless connection and then send a file, velasco.sis, that contains the worm to those phones. Cabir.H and Cabir.I can search for and find a new target if another vulnerable phone goes out of range. The new Cabir variants does not destroy data on the phones they infect, they block legitimate Bluetooth wireless connections and consume battery power.

Mobile phones running vulnerable versions of the Symbian Series 60 software and that have the Bluetooth wireless feature in "discoverable" mode, are susceptible to infection. The availability of the Cabir source code on the Internet is expected to result in a lot of new variants

- MORE via PCWORLD




 

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