Security Papers (ericsson)

As mobile phones increasingly become the target of propagating malware, their use of direct pair-wise communication mechanisms, such as Bluetooth and WiFi, pose considerable challenges to malware detection and mitigation. Unlike malware that propagates using the network, where the provider can employ centralized defenses, proximity malware can propagate in an entirely distributed fashion.

Proceedings of the 28th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'09), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April, 2009.

Defending Mobile Phones from Proximity Malware

Gjergji Zyba, Geoffrey Voelker, Michael Liljenstam, András Méhes, Per Johansson