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Hackers unleash mobile phones virus

By David Harding, Evening Standard

17 June 2004

 

The world's first computer virus to be spread by mobile phones has been unleashed.

 

The worm, known as Cabir, is spread via wireless Bluetooth technology and makes the word 'caribe' appear on the phone screen.

 

At present the virus, thought to be the work of international hacker group 29A, is not 'in the wild' and has been sent only to anti-virus companies to show the weakness in their technology.

here is the link to the full story: http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/...02?source=Metro

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