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How you can infect your mobile phone through Bluetooth

posted onJune 8, 2009
by hitbsecnews

As mobile phones have been evolving to become more and more like computers when it comes to useful features and functions available with PCs at the same time they incurred the same problems we have when using our desktops and laptops. Smartphones with the options and operating systems much like computers have are also vulnerable to malicious applications and virus attacks which often results either in device damage or identity theft. Besides, such malware attacks also allow violators to fully control mobile devices and perform actions they initiate. Here we will discuss how we can get a virus on our mobile phone through a Bluetooth device, what implications of such attacks can be and how we can protect against them.

As reported by many media sources first virus that could spread via Bluetooth was created back in 2004. It was the benign worm called Cabir and was written by 29a, a group of virus writers which specializes in proof-of-concept viruses - they made the first viruses for .NET and for Win64.

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