First cell phone virus in U.S.

A California store recently offered a free - although unwanted - giveaway: The first known American occurrence of a slowly spreading cell-phone virus.

The Cabir virus was spotted on a cell phone in a Santa Monica store, according to F-Secure, a Finnish security company.

The virus could wirelessly infect nearby phones. Susceptible devices are certain smartphones, a combination of a handheld computer and cell phone. The phones must have Bluetooth, wireless data transfer.

The Cabir cyberpest merely drains cell phone batteries, but its spread demonstrates that cell phones could be the next frontier for security breaches.

“It’s not the end of the world, but it does show us how more dangerous viruses or malicious viruses could spread, especially as the number of smartphones increases,” said Marie Clark, a representative for F-Secure.

A hacker called Vallez, part of a group called 29A Labs, claimed responsibility for Cabir. “Our goal is to create new, unique, interesting viruses,” the group says on its Web site.
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