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15-Mar-2006

First J2ME Trojan targets mass market handsets

Filed under: Security, Wireless — Bill Day @ 2:32 pm

You've got Redbrowser.A if...

Someone’s finally written the first known J2ME malware.

Read up on the details (including how to avoid infection or remove Redbrowser.A from an already infected mobile) from Symantec and McAfee.

I guess it was inevitable, but given the huge number of deployed devices as potential targets it’s amazing that it’s taken close to seven years for something as weak as Redbrowser to finally appear.

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