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Worms in cellular networks are malicious codes that can exploit social relationship among mobiles for propagating and can be effectively contained by targeted patching.
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While the increased openness in cellular networks allows richer applications to run over mobile phones, mobile worms become one of the largest threats [1]. The usual ways for mobile worms to propagate include Bluetooth interface and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) interface. One Bluetooth based mobile worm is Cabir, which can spread through Bluetooth connection to other Bluetooth-enabled devices it can find. One noteworthy MMS worm example is Commwarrior, which can search through a user’s local address book and send MMS messages containing infected files to other users in the address book. MMS worms usually have larger infection range, higher infection rate, and higher successful rate than Bluetooth worms, thus cause more damages.
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MMS worms typically...
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Cao, G., Zhu, Z. (2011). Worms in Cellular Networks. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_50
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