MalWare and Windows Mobile?

Posted by: Peter Murphy on Nov 20 2008 - 34 views

The threat of Virus/MalWare attack has been almost non existent for Windows mobile devices, but does the uptake of WinMo devices by enterprise users, makes it more of a target in this day and age?
You could cripple a company dependant on Windows CE devices for mobile communication, and stock control, with a well engineered worm, but how to deploy it to those devices. Well there are covert ways to do it.
All of us WinMo users are pretty smug about attacks like this that are, well, common with the desktop/laptop counterpart of the OS. The incidence seems low for WinMo and a quick search would still seem to indicate that.
It seems highly unlikely that you are going to be affected by problems over the air, but in a new twist, it may just be the accessories you use that introduce the problem.  Long known with hard drives for PC’s, the inclusion of a little nasty, has been well documented. You don’t have to go very far to find these occurrences.
Now the infection is coming to a storage card near you!

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So you thought you were safe?

Posted by: Peter Murphy on Feb 27 2008 - 567 views

Windows Mobile devices have enjoyed a charmed life in terms of outside attacks of the virus persuasion. In my WinMo experience, I can recall two instances of claimed viral attacks, so this news, of a mobile Trojan is probably something, we should be concerned about, or place in our Ho Hum files.

McAfee’s Avert Labs division is warning users about one of the first "Trojan horse" viruses to afflict Windows Mobile. Dubbed WinCE/Infojack, it allows silent installation of malware, and sends information about an infected device to the Trojan’s author, according to the company.

 

This is a little information about a bug you should be aware of,

The Trojan sends the infected device’s serial number, operating system, and other information to the author of the trojan. It also modifies the infected device’s security setting to allow unsigned applications to be installed without a warning,

Don’t get caught, Helen’s not worth it!

via WindowsforDevices

 

 

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