IT security consultancy F.Secure has issued an alert
regarding a virus that targets mobile devices. Called
Commwarrior-B, it affected one of F.Secure's clients in
Scandinavia.
The company said, "We have seen the first medium-scale internal
infection of a company that was caused by a mobile virus."
Increasingly, sensitive corporate data is being held on mobile
phones, wireless-enabled PDAs and mobile e-mail devices such as
Blackberries. Always-on connections can mean this data is
vulnerable to attack.
F.Secure said dozens of employees of the company received the
virus via Bluetooth or MMS transmissions during the day-long
outbreak. More than 20 of them opened the message on their phones,
allowing it to infect their system.
The company urged businesses to write clear guidelines on
Bluetooth and MMS operation for corporate users.