By Mikko Hypponen – Chief Research Officer – F-Secure Corporation
Mikko’s talk is an overview of how a the anti-malware
1986 first PC virus found called Brain. Which was actually by todays standard a “root kit” even if we did not call virusse that at this time.
In 1991 Mikko analysed his first virus the “Omega” virus.
The first viruses actually announced themselves like the V sign virus, Josh, Walker, Yankee Doodle Yankee, Casino, etc.
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Charlies Miller’s and Collin Mulliners talk “Fuzzing the Phone in your Phone” today revealed full details that could make the first iPhone virus infection at the Blackhat security conference in Las Vegas.
Large SMS messages are cut up in smaller SMS messages, this means that the SMS messages need to be parsed by the phone to put it back together and thus can be used as an attack vector to breach the phone. By using a technique known as fuzzing, Miller and Mulliner where able to find exploitable conditions that could be turned into an attack and an iPhone virus. The attack takes a total of 519 SMS messages, but will work without any user interaction.
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