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Music and Movies Could Trigger Mobile Malware

Posted by timothy on from the seeds-of-your-own-destruction dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "Lights, sounds and magnetic fields can be used to activate malware on phones, new research has found. The lab-style attacks defined in a paper (PDF) used pre-defined signals hidden in songs and TV programmes as a trigger to activate embedded malware. Malware once activated would carry out programmed attacks either by itself or as part of a wider botnet of mobile devices."

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  1. A good reason by Vombatus · · Score: 4, Informative

    to turn your phones off whilst watching a movie!

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  2. Re:Copyright conspiracy theory: by RDW · · Score: 4, Informative

    Current Blu-ray players are already infected with malware that shuts them down when a certain pattern of sounds is detected:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia