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Cabir bluejack

June 16, 2004 | Comments (0)

Have you been bluejacked by Cabir yet?

If you have a phone with BlueTooth, and you’re within range of about 10 meters of another person with a bluetooth enabed device, you can communicate with hime or her. Bluejacking is sending a contact with the name “You have been bluejacked”. Ontheir phone a message will popup with that name — e.g. “You have been bluejacked”. The victim will have no idea what have happened to him. Of cource you could send other messages…

Cabir is a different beast, as Cabir is the first — known — mobile phone virus which moves itself using bluetooth! It’s implemented for the symbian platform. After being infected you get the message ‘Caribe’ after you turn on the phone! So it’s quite harmless but untill a script kiddy gets the source and modifies it so it actually clears your address book or worse. See News Interactive for a full story.

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