BlackBerry ‘Trojan’ unveiled

Mobile device proof-of-concept opens hole in network security.

A proof-of-concept attack, which uses the

BlackBerry

mobile device to breach network security, was demonstrated at the

DefCon

conference in Las Vegas last week.

The exploit uses the servers the devices connect to as a vector into networks. The researcher who developed the demonstation has not released the trojan itself, but has released a proxy program used as part of the attack.

BlackBerry

developers

Research in Motion

say the issue can be easily circumvented, with more cautious configuration of the servers.

See the presentation from the researchers at


Praetorian Global


, and read about the hack

here

or

here

.

Posted on 11 August 2006 by

Virus Bulletin