Virus on Symbian series 60 2nd and 3rd edition software

[coolshano]

Dear Symbian series 60 2nd and 3rd edition software users plese be careful when recieving text, e mail, bluetooth or mms messagers cause their have been a new virus that has been released... it will not allow the phone to recieve new messages from any medium as stated above.......
Nokia N70
Nokia N72
Nokia N73
Nokia N76
Nokia N80
Nokia N81
and many other phones....
Caution if you are a Symbian S60 5th edition user (nokia 5800) then still be careful cause it might get affected.....
Be safe!!!

 

[DJ ASHAN]

haaaaaa

 

[pradeeplk1025]

I have Nokia N70 Music Edition! i Use Kaspersky Antivirus on it! Let`s see!.......

 

[rudayas]

I also have N73 ME + Kaspersky lets see.........

 

[coolshano]

that's really cool.... must install kaspersky on my phone...

 

[coollifestyle4u]

ThanX for your information Dear....

 

[ram4mira]

Mea mage phn ekata thaththige phone eken bluetooth msgs and empty Txt msgs and MMS uth enawa
Thaththi ewanne nathuwa
Bluetooth off karala tyenawa welawatath
Can any one explain dis????
dawas 3k withara awa.man ekakwath open kare na...dannam kalekin awe na

My phn is nokia N 70

 

[gtkisaru]

Mea mage phn ekata thaththige phone eken bluetooth msgs and empty Txt msgs and MMS uth enawa
Thaththi ewanne nathuwa
Bluetooth off karala tyenawa welawatath
Can any one explain dis????
dawas 3k withara awa.man ekakwath open kare na...dannam kalekin awe na

My phn is nokia N 70

HOLMAN..!!!!

 

[anuja]

Mobile Virology:
Curse of Silence, a Symbian S60 SMS Exploit?

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Now when the platform is hacked and just when we thought we know practically everything there was to know about the 3rd edition of the S60 platform and new security system, I stumbled upon something really interesting.

F-secure has just warned mobile phone users of a new worm which as is not S60 2nd Edition exclusive as usually and affects 3rd edition devices as well.

Sounds bad but to be really honest with you, I'm not scared about it. With the risk of repeating myself I'll say again that there is no real danger if you are careful enough, actually, Smartphone users have to do a lot wrong to get infected and the latest exploit isn’t expected from this rule.

Anyway, this easily reproducible SMS exploit was disclosed and demonstrated today at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress by the Tobias Engel. What is the most interesting about the exploit is fact that exploit is effective against a most of the Symbian S60 Smartphones and will effectively prohibit victims from receiving SMS messages.


The 25th Chaos Communication Congress (25C3) is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Berlin, Germany.
First held in 1984, it since has established itself as “the European Hacker Conference”, attracting a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, cientists, artists, and utopists from all around the world.

According to Engel's research, the exploit affects the messaging components of Nokia S60 2nd ed and 3rd ed Fp1 devices as well, but F-secure’s labs determined that Sony Ericsson UiQ devices are vulnerable as well.

Versions 2.6, 2.8, 3.0, and 3.1 are also better known as S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 2; S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 3; S60 3rd Edition (initial release); and S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 respectively.

The vulnerability is very simple to exploit via an SMS message. No special software is required and the message can be drafted from a large number of phones. The message just needs to be formatted in a particular way. (We will not provide exact details here.)

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What happens when a vulnerable
phone receives the exploit message?

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Example 1 — on the older 6680 nothing happens. Nothing at all… The first exploit message is enough to crash the SMS messaging service. It is a completely silent attack and there are no hints of trouble presented to the victim. The phone will simply stop receiving SMS (as well as MMS) messages.

Example 2 — on the newer N95, nothing will happen until several messages have been sent by the attacker. Then, once the critical limit has been reached, the phone will prompt an alert: "Not enough memory to receive message(s). Delete some data first."
The attack messages will not be visible from the Inbox, and deleting previously received messages will not resolve the problem.

There will also be one additional notification on the N95. A blinking envelope, indicating that the Inbox is full, appears in the upper right-hand corner of the display.
Turning the N95 off and on again may return some limited functionality, but that functionality is very fragile. One multi-part message was enough to completely disable our test phone's SMS/MMS service, at which point even cycling the power did not help.



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[anuja]

Fortinet Offers Free Protection Against "Curse of Silence"

Fortinet's FortiCleanUp tool for Curse of Silence Enables recovery after SMS denial of service attack
Fortinet- the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions - today announced that its FortiGuard Global Security Research Team has released a new version of the FortiCleanUp tool to help users recover from the recently discovered "Curse of Silence" mobile attack (also known as CurseSMS).
Fortinet's FortiCleanUp is a range of free tools running on Symbian OS S60-powered phones and designed to remove and recover from specific mobile malware and their related variants.
The "Curse of Silence/CurseSMS" attack is a remote SMS/MMS denial of service that was recently discovered by Tobias Engel and revealed at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress. The attack involves sending a maliciously crafted SMS to potential targets.

Upon receipt of that SMS, the targeted device may no longer be able to receive SMS or MMS messages. Depending on the operating system version of the targeted mobile phone, the device may require a factory reset to properly function again.
Fortinet provides a free-of-charge license to its new FortiCleanUp tool, which helps users to recover once their mobile phone has been attacked by "Curse of Silence/CurseSMS."
The FortiCleanUp tool for Curse of Silence/CurseSMS automatically scans and removes malicious SMS/MMS messages that are preventing the proper functioning of the handset.

Potentially vulnerable devices include Nokia phones running SymbianOS S60 2nd Edition Feature Pack 2, 2nd Edition Feature Pack 3, 3rd Edition, and 3rd Edition FP1. This includes several phones of the "N" series up to the N95 and of the "E" series up to the E90, as well as older models such as the 6680.


Download FortiCleanUpTool

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[coolshano]

Actually when you get emails to your phone you could get effected......

 

[anuja]

Actually when you get emails to your phone you could get effected......

But still theres no possible virus attack on latest models with s60 3rd