World athletics championships are attacked by phone viruses

The ongoing sporting event in Finland has just become a new location for re-exported Cabir virus . There have been dozens of people reporting incidents with their devices related to this destructive program.

Local telecom carrier TeliaSonera even had to set up a special center right at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki to handle infections and free antivirus software for free with time to use. limit.

'In order to prevent the infiltration program from continuing to spread, we had to provide a wide range of powerful security software, and implemented many measures to prevent the spread of viruses through multi-path messaging. MMS media ', Pasi Mehtonen, Vice President of TeliaSonera, said.

Cabir virus spreads via Bluetooth wireless connection.When determining other Symbian Series 60 phones in the same wave range, it will send the file containing the attack code.If the target host accepts to download and install this file, then the virus can work.Cabir's effect is to quickly drain the device's battery power.To turn off Bluetooth connection, the spread is prevented.

'With such an operation, Cabir easily' throws 'when there are tens of thousands of phone users from all over the world gathering in a place like a stadium',Mikko Hypponen, Director Research by security firm F-Secure (Finland), said.'Early this summer, the same situation happened withLive 8 concert.So now we have to send our staff to the Olympic Stadium to support virus removal. '