F-Secure has denied overplaying the threat posed by mobile malware after the Finnish antivirus vendor issued information about a new mobile worm. The warning, released last week, claimed that the worm ...
SINGAPORE--Never mind the naysayers who dismiss mobile viruses as pure hogwash. Korean security solutions provider AhnLab firmly believes such threats could cripple mobile device users in the near ...
The first real mobile phone virus, which was found in the wild and could replicate on its own, was discovered almost two years ago. On June 15 2004, Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure and Russian rival ...
The vendor said in its online blog that when the newly-discovered Cardtrap A is an "otherwise unremarkable Symbian trojan except it also tries to infect (the) user's PC." The company said that, when ...
A mobile phone virus recently hit a small company in Scandinavia and spread from one handset to another, according to security vendor F-Secure Corp. It was the first time F-Secure has seen a mobile ...
Viruses on mobile phones are still rare, but their number has been growing fast as handsets increasingly resemble small computers that connect with each other and the Internet, industry officials said ...
Imagine using your mobile phone to track the spread of water contaminants—such as oil spills or even viruses like COVID-19—in the blink of an eye. Researchers from McGill University have developed new ...
The dream of a connected world where PCs and mobile phones can communicate with the digital home and other devices is supposed to make life easier. But it could instead make life far more dangerous if ...
A Brazilian virus writer has unleashed a new mobile phone virus, called Lasco.A, that is capable of spreading both through the short-range wireless Bluetooth technology and by attaching itself to ...