F-Secure reports 1st Medium-scale phone virus infection

  Viruses are new to mobile phone technology and they are beginning to circulate more extensively in-the-wild.  To date most infections have been with single individuals.  F-Secure briefly documents how a company's address book is most likely used to spread the Commwarrior virus to dozens of individuals in a company.  At least 20 true infections resulted that required cleaning and removal of the mobile phone virus.

F-Secure reports 1st Medium-scale phone virus infection

Commwarrior incident - F-Secure Weblog

August 27, 2005 -- We've now seen the first medium-scale internal infection of a company that was caused by a mobile virus.  On Wednesday this week, we were working on a case where a single company had a serious run-in with the Commwarrior.B virus. Several dozens of employees of the company received Bluetooth or MMS transmission of the virus during the day-long outbreak and over twenty of them actually opened the message on their phones and got infected with it.