News PDA Pocket PC trojan out in the wild

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  1. GreatOldOne

    GreatOldOne Wannabe Martian

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    So much for polite, non malicious proof of concepts, eh? This from the Inq:

    KASPERSKY LABS said it has encountered a backdoor trojan for the Pocket PC operating system out in the wild.

    The trojan, Backdoor.WinCE.Brador.a opens infected machines for remote administration and can infect handheld PDAs running Pocket PCs.

    After the backdoor is launched, the trojan creates svchost.exe in Windows autorun, identifies the machine's IP address and open port 44299.

    The Brador virus allows the author control over the infected PDA, but like other backdoor trojans can't spread by itself.

    Said Eugene Kaspersky: "We were certain that a viable malicious program for PDAs would appear soon after the first proof of concept viruses emerged for mobile phones and Windows mobile".

    He added that WinCE.Bardor.a is a full scale malicious program and has a complete set of destructive functions.

    Brador, said Kaspersky, was probably written by a Russian virus coder, attached to an email with a Russian sender, and then offered for sale.

    The firm said that PDA users now face a real danger. "We will probably see a serious outbreak of viruses for handhelds sometime soon"

    That's your lot, but have a link as well.

    I wonder how long it's going to be before Symantec capitilizes on this and we have NAV for PPC? :rolleyes:
     
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  2. Froggy

    Froggy What's a Dremel?

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    I can hardly wait! Now ALL of my computers will have there performance cut in half becuase of NAV. :wallbash:
     
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  3. Liquid K9

    Liquid K9 Human programmer.. heh

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    if I remember correctly, symantec already have a ppc version of norton antivirus. _if_ I am correct, its been out for some time.
     
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  4. GreatOldOne

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  5. cpu121

    cpu121 What's a Dremel?

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    Some of the Major AV suites come with a PPC version included, but I guess they will stop that practice to capitalise on this new market created by proper virii circulating.
     
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  6. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    And this is why I like my palm m100. No internet connection. No way to get stupid crap like this.

    My question is do virus/trojan/etc makers do this to piss people off or just to show they can?
     
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