Spanish mobile malware suspect arrested
28-year-old charged with Cabir/Commwarrior crimes.
An unnamed man has been arrested in Valencia, Spain, on suspicion of creating and spreading 20 variants of the
Cabir and CommWarrior mobile phone viruses.
In a groundbreaking case for the Spanish authorities, the man was arrested on Saturday after a seven-month
investigation. It is thought his malware affected more then 115,000 mobile phones running the Symbian
platform, and caused millions of euros' worth of damage, with costs arising from effects on individual phone
users and the mobile service providers.
The arrest has been widely welcomed, with comment from F-Secure
here and from Sophos
here.
26 June 2007
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