Aggressive mobile worm detected
Mobile phone malware writers are up to no good again. A security vendor has detected a new variant of an aggressive Russian mobile worm that uses some alarming new tricks.
Like its earlier relatives, Commwarrior.Q will jump onto another phone using a short-range Bluetooth wireless connection, said anti-virus company F-Secure. It also spreads via MMS or by an infected memory card inserted into a device.
Commwarrior.Q is not spreading widely. But the worm has new traits that make it particularly aggressive and it appears to be one of the most complex pieces of mobile malware created to date, said Antti Vihavainen, vice president of mobile security for F-Secure.
Commwarrior.Q will continuously send MMS messages from midnight to 7am to people in an infected phone's address book. It cleverly assembles a text message from the phone's "sent" file, making it appear legitimate, Vihavainen said.
