Symbian Botnet? Mobile Linux Rootkits? iPhone Botnets? Millions of phones at risk? The press coverage on smartphone threats is at times somewhat accurate, distant and occasionally(if unintentionally) misleading. They tend to raise questions such as:<ul> <li>how close to PC levels(100K+ to millions of nodes) mobile botnets have reached?</li> <li>have mobile rootkits reached the complexity of that on the PC?</li></ul> <p>The talk will cover the state of rootkits and botnets on smartphones from the perspective of anti-malware researchers, including:<ul> <li>demystification of the threat from mobile rootkits and mobile botnets</li> <li>the differences, if any, between mobile rootkits and mobile botnets vs. their PC counterparts</li> <li>up close look[] at how samples seen in the wild and researcher PoCs function</li></ul> [] Short of examining disassemblies or mentioning actual API calls
Jimmy Shah is a Mobile Antivirus Researcher for McAfee, specializing in analysis of mobile threats on existing platforms (J2ME, SymbOS, Windows Mobile, iPhone OS, Android) and potential mobile malware and spyware. He works with a team of researchers that regularly provides analysis and research on mobile threats to McAfee clients.