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October 13, 2004
Back for bad
After co-publishing the source of the first WinCE virus side by side with its author - "Ratter" from the virus writing group 29A, (for which he was well paid, some say) the geniuses from Airscanner are back for more. In their latest production entitled "Reverse-Engineering the First Pocket PC Trojan" they publish the complete dissasembly of the first WinCE trojan Brador, again with kind support from the virus writing star "Ratter".
The following two excerpts are worth noting:
"...Brador was written by a different author, from Russia, who reportedly released it to only a select few 'big' AV companies. As a smaller company that focuses exclusively on Windows Mobile antivirus software, we were left out in the cold." and
"Fortunately, after mucking around in the underground for a while, we were able to obtain a copy of the Trojan..."
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=340544
Posted by Costin Raiu at October 13, 2004 12:10 PM