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100,000 virus a day!
18th July 2008
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Topic: Technology
Today we issued an announcement about the rather alarming rise of mobile virus attacks that we have seen:
Recent analysis of data from AdaptiveMobile’s mobile operator customers suggests that two virus variants - CommWarrior and Beselo – are causing particular damage. While CommWarrior only affects Nokia Series 60 phones, Beselo attacks all smartphones, spreading via Bluetooth and MMS as a Symbian SIS installation file and is growing at four times the rate of CommWarrior.
One major operator, an AdaptiveMobile customer that prefers not to be named, has seen a rise in virus attacks from 0.5 per cent of all messages to six per cent over the last 12 months. On average, this operator receives 100,000 virus incidences a day, up from 70,000 in just one year.
100,000!!! It’s really incredible to see this sharp increase, yet it’s none too surprising because as more and more enterprise organizations adopt smartphones for employee usage, the greater the number of targets for attack.
As our own COO, Gareth Maclachlan states, ““Protecting its users should be the first priority for any mobile phone provider. As infection rates continue to rise and higher proportions of customers are left at risk, mobile phone security will become a key differentiator for customer creation and retention – particularly among large organizations keen to ensure their staff are properly protected. The battle is heating up – and mobile operators have to make sure they are competing effectively.”
And, as always, we are here with the solution.
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