BlackBerry update bursting with spyware
Found on The Register on Tuesday, 14 July 2009
An update pushed out to BlackBerry users on the Etisalat network in the United Arab Emirates appears to contain remotely-triggered spyware that allows the interception of messages and emails, as well as crippling battery life.
Closer examination (as reported by itp.net) seems to indicate that all instances of the application were expected to register with a central server, which couldn't cope with the traffic - thus forcing all the instances to repeatedly attempt to connect while draining the battery.
Perhaps malware authors will shift to the mobile sector and leave the rest of the PC users alone. However, I admit that I do have doubts about that though.