The Threat of Mobile Malware is Bonkers

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F-Secure previously documented a mobile phone virus that will infect the MMC card with a Windows PC virus that would infect if it was ever put in an MMC Card reader... and then quietly noting that while it appeared to be a proof of concept, it was the first serious malware. Now a Sophos senior tech consultant has a view on this announcement (reports Silicon.com), "...For the vendor to say that this is the first example of a serious mobile malware threat is plain bonkers."