It really was only a matter of time.

Tech journalists have actually been waiting with bated breath for the emergence of mobile exploits, viruses and Trojans, but we needed for two things to happen first; firstly that the technology get sophisticated enough to support such malware, but also that the environment reach a critical mass that would allow their spread in the mobile ecosystem.

The first really began with the introduction of phones that allowed the running of third party software. In it's truest form this probably meant on OS's such as Nokia's Symbian, however exploits have been possible since WAP phones first came out over ten years ago. Around then, many phones included rushed and often flawed implementations of the various WAP stack of API's, and in a number of these cases exploits were theoretically possible.

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