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Apocalypso
12-13-2005, 01:51 AM
Pbstealer.B and Pbstealer.C found

http://www.symbian-freak.com/images/news/05/12/virustm.jpg (http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/1205/pbstealers.htm)

PBStealer.B (http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/1205/pbstealer_b.htm) and PBStealer.C (http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/1205/pbstealer_c.htm) are trojan applications that run on Symbian Series 60 platform and spread in a SIS file originally named as Pbexlorer.SIS. PBStealer.B (http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/1205/pbstealer_b.htm) and PBStealer.C (http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/1205/pbstealer_c.htm) pretend to be utility softwares that compact the phone's contact database. Instead of compacting the information, both trojans read the contact information database and send the contents as a text file into the first bluetooth device they find.

PBStealer.B (http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/1205/pbstealer_b.htm) is a close variant to PBStealer.A. The main difference is that PBStealer.B (http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/1205/pbstealer_b.htm) copies additional contact entry fields and user's Notes and ToDo entries to th.. ...

Read more:
http://www.symbian-freak.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_arrow.gif www.symbian-freak.com (http://www.symbian-freak.com)
http://www.symbian-freak.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_arrow.gif Pbstealer.B / Pbstealer.C - full (http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/1205/pbstealers.htm)

Sincerely yours,
Apoc

BenXP
12-19-2005, 10:47 AM
Interesting. Although, why would the trojan writer stop at bluetooth transmission and not via the carrier's wireless network? Seems useless to me other than to prove the OS's security weakness/hole.

Apocalypso
12-20-2005, 12:53 AM
Very agree with you and very interesting aspect BenXP :?
What about unpcoming phones with wi-fi!?

Regards,
Apoc

Shun
12-20-2005, 01:59 AM
LOL... how about upcoming phone with WiFi and UPnP?!