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BlackBerry Exploit Coming Soon
SecurityProNews
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2006-08-09
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Security researchers are set to release exploit code on August 14 that will make BlackBerry devices vulnerable to attacks.
Jesse D'Aguanno, who is the one that will release the exploit, refers to it as the first Trojan Horse malware for BlackBerry. Robert Jaques of vnunet.com reports: The soon-to-be-released hacking program, called BBProxy, can be installed on a BlackBerry or sent as an email attachment to an unsuspecting user. Once installed, BBProxy opens a back channel bypassing the organisation's gateway security mechanisms between the hacker and the inside of the victim's network, Secure Computing stated.
Since the communications channel between the BlackBerry server and handheld device is encrypted and cannot be properly inspected by typical security products, a tunnel is most often opened by the administrator to allow the encrypted communications channel to the BlackBerry server inside the organisation's network. A malicious person could potentially use this back channel to move around inside an organisation unabated and remove confidential information undetected or use the back channel to install malware on the network. D'Aguanno will release the BBProxy, but not the Trojan Horse code. BBProxy was demonstrated at the DefCon conference.
Tag: BlackBerry, BBProxy
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