Presentation Title: Mobile Malware
Presentation Details:

The first real viruses infecting mobile phones were found during late 2004. Since then, dozens of different viruses and Trojans - including cases like Commwarrior, Lasco and Skulls - have been found. Mobile phone viruses use totally new spreading vectors such as Multimedia messages and Bluetooth.

How exactly do these mobile viruses work? We’ll have a look at their code and discuss what factors affect their spreading speeds. Virus writers have always been trying to attack new platforms. What draws them now towards the mobile phone? Are phones as a platform simply widespread enough, or is the possibility of making easy money via phone billing systems driving this development? Where are we now and what can we expect to see in the Mobile Malware of the future?

About Mikko:

Mr. Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer at F-Secure Corp. He has been analysing viruses since 1991. He has consulted several high-profile organizations on computer security issues, including IBM, Microsoft, FBI, US Secret Service, Interpol and the Scotland Yard. Mr. Hypponen (35) led the team that infiltrated the Slapper worm attack network in 2002, took down the world-wide network used by the Sobig.F worm in 2003 and was the first to warn the world about the Sasser outbreak in 2004.

Mr. Hypponen and his team has been profiled by Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, New York Times and Newsweek. He has been an invited member of CARO (the Computer Anti-Virus Researchers Organization) since 1995.

Apart from computer security issues, Mr. Hypponen enjoys collecting and restoring classic arcade video games and pinball machines from past decades. He lives with his family, and a small moose community, on an island near Helsinki.